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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 2, 1986
Coupled with this, the Single European Act enables the
legislative institutions of the Community to expand their
areas of lawmaking greatly by 'harmonizin
.
the laws of
member-states
so
gg
to make them un orm T h e s e l e c t
committee reported: 'Itisalreadyapparent from the preamble
that the act's intention
is
to make the Community's
legislative procedures more effective. This streamlining, if
successful, will increase...the areas subject to Community law
rather than national law...
So
the debate is over.... The Single European Act ushers in
a
new constitution for Europe.... Gone is the concept
of
national sovereignty-to be replaced by European unity. The
bells are sounding, 'Ring out the old, ring in the new.. It
--
is the beginning
of
M
epoch. It is a vision come true.
F o r
Europe.
In his final Lords debate on the matter Lord Denning said, in effect,
that Britain now had little choice but to exercise its full complement of
rights inside the EC apparatus in order to try to uphold, as much as
possible, British customs and traditions. 'Therefore, I urge us to go
into Europe with enthusiasm and vigor,. he said, adding, 'We must send
the very best of our people to Europe.'
Not all Britons, however--at least not those who are awake to what is
happening-are resigned to this course
of
action. In the November
10
DAILY TELEGRAPH, T.E. Utley wrote, in an article entitled, "Duped
by
a
European Smoke Screen':
I do not accept defeat, as Lord Denning does: what Parliament
has given it can take back. Any [politicall party which will
commit itself to doing so will stand a fair chance of getting
my vote.
Britain's Labour Party has been considerably more anti-EC than the
Conservatives, who for the most part believe that Britain, now shorn of
empire, must take up a significant role in a greater Europe. What if
Labour wins the next general election in a year or two? The Labourites,
if
they are clever, can tap a large reservoir of British discontent over
the EC, as reflected in this article in the SUNDAY TIMES
of
Hay 12, 1985:
Getting the ordinary Briton to like, let alone love, the EEC
is
an awesome task. Enoch Powell [outspoken ultra-nationalist
parliamentarian from Northern Ireland1 reminded us yesterday
that his hostility towards the EEC and all its laws remains
undiluted. He told the Anti-Common Market Campaign that the
passage of time since we joined the community in 1973 had made
the British people increasingly conscious of their
loss
of
sovereignty. And he spoke
of
the United States as the
sinister power behind it all, because they regarded the
E X
as
a .politico-strategic necessity.'
John
Paul
11:
Increased Stature
as
World's Premier Spokesran for Peace
On
his current trip to Australasia,
John
Paul
11
is
speaking out boldly
on the need for religious joint efforts serving the cause of peace. Here