... treasury options and basically consisted of a proposal for a European Free Trade area: all the trade and none of the politics. Although the Six were far advanced, their project had not reached its final shape before Plan G emerged, and it was the British ambition to supplant their fierce and narrow concept with a softer, broader one. The Six would be at the core ... enthusiasm of these younger Ministers...But I cannot disguise from myself that it will in fact be very difficult to persuade the whole Cabinet and very hard to sell to the Party and the people. What we are all agreed is that...

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