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Since this is the time for annual reviews you might ges expecting something from me. I won't attempt a review in
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whether you will have daylight office time to read it (what amore than
misery it must be you have all our sympathies). Certainly I do not expect you to have time to answer it.
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2. Without doubt this has been the topic, and the most time consuming non-event of the year for us all. If all the papers we have all exchanged on it in the year were piled up they would make the tallest story of all time of the one that got away and should not have. I will not add to the wordage now by crying over spilt ink except to say that I do not remember feeling as surprised, disappointed, frustrated and let down since all our labours in 1962/3 to enter E E C, when we thought we had done more than enough to meet the E E C desiderata, were abruptly nullified by De Gaulle's "Non" - which, also, seemed both an injustice and unjustified. I have done my best in separate letters to analyse what in retrospect appears to have been much more of a one horse race than we had been led to believe. (Even now I cannot help contrasting the admitted constant consultation with the Japanese to help them in formulating their pre-emptive bid and the tolerance to them over the guarantee - with the deceptively scant discussions with the Anglo-Italian Group after promises of "helping them to draft a counter-bid").
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