18 NOVEMBER 1966, page 4

It Is Not Too Soon, Therefore, To Consider What The

alternatives are for Britain should the present negotiations fail. The harsh truth is that they scarcely exist at all. The Commonwealth alternative is now mani- festly a dead......

Portrait Of The Week

MR WILSON, however, stuck at it : he addressed the Lord Mayor's banquet and spoke a little more about his vision of Europe, proposing a new European techno- logical community.......