Cartoon by Cummings on the United Kingdom's application for membership of the EC (4 August 1961)

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'Already, mon general, we've discarded our two-party system and got lots of extra new parties... like France !' In 1961, Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, explains to President De Gaulle how political divisions arising from the UK's accession to the European Communities, and the subsequent multiplication of factions, are the first sign of European integration.

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Source: Daily Express. 04.08.1961. [s.l.].

Copyright: (c) Cummings

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Cartoon by Cummings on the United Kingdom's application for membership of the EC (4 August 1961)