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2 Gordon Richardson, b. 1915, cr. Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne 1983, KG, was Governor of the Bank of England 197383.

3 John Sparrow, b. 1906, was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, 195277.

4 The 2nd Lord Faringdon (Gavin Henderson), 190277, a Labour peer of aesthetic tastes, had inherited Buscot Park in 1934.

5 Enzo Perlot, b. 1933, was Italian Amba.s.sador to Portugal 19847, and is now Political Director at the Italian Foreign Office.

6 Comte Rene Boel, b. 1902, was former President of the European League for Economic Cooperation and a patriarch of Belgian internationalism.

7 Gaafar Mohammed al Nimeiri, b. 1930, was President of the Sudan from 1971 until he was overthrown by a coup in 1985.

8 The Lome Convention (named after its place of signature in Togo and replacing the Yaounde Convention negotiated by the original Six) was a non-reciprocal aid and trade agreement between the Community and forty-six African, Caribbean and Pacific states (now grown to sixty-five) which had been signed in 1975 and was due for renegotiation eighteen months before its expiry in 1980. This renegotiation began in the summer of 1978 and led to Lome II which has now in turn been replaced by Lome III. The renegotiation was already looming by the beginning of 1978.

9 In November President Sadat had visited Jerusalem for peace talks with the Israeli Government. In late December the Prime Minister had paid a follow-up visit to Sadat in Ismailia.

10 Konstantinos Karamanlis, b. 1907, had been Prime Minister three times between 1955 and 1963, when he started an eleven-year exile in France. With the fall of 'the Colonels' he became Prime Minister again 197480, and was President of Greece 19805.

11 Sir Henry Plumb, b. 1925, cr. Lord Plumb in 1986 after being elected President of the European Parliament, of which he had been a Member since 1979.

12 Lord Greenwood of Rossendale, 191182, had been a Labour MP 194670, and was a Minister in the first Wilson Government.

13 Lord Trevelyan, 190585, had been Amba.s.sador to Cairo at the time of Suez and subsequently to Moscow.

14 The Cour des Comptes had been established in October 1977 with an Irish Treasury official, M. N. Murphy, as President and Sir Norman Price, former Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, as the British member.

15 Gunnar Riberholdt, b. 1933, was Danish Permanent Representative to the European Community 197784, when he became Danish Amba.s.sador in Paris.

16 William Whitelaw, b. 1918, cr. Viscount Whitelaw 1983, was then deputy leader of the Opposition and was to be Home Secretary 197983, and Lord President of the Council and leader of the House of Lords 19838.

17 Shirley Williams, now Mrs Richard Neustadt, b. 1930, was then Secretary of State for Education and Science, and became President of the Social Democratic Party 19828.

18 Sir John Baring, b. 1928, is now Chairman of Baring Brothers and of the Rhodes Trust.

19 Lionel Murray, b. 1922, cr. Lord Murray 1985, was General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress 197384.

20 Gwyneth Dunwoody, b. 1930, Labour MP for Exeter 196670, and for Crewe since 1974.

21 Andries van Agt, b. 1931, was Dutch Minister of Justice 19717, and Prime Minister 197782. Subsequently Community Representative in Tokyo.

22 Guy de Jonquieres, b. 1945, was Financial Times correspondent in Brussels 19769, and is now its international business editor. Diana de Jonquieres became my research a.s.sistant 19848.

23 Claude Pierre-Brossolette, b. 1928, was a Finances adjutant of Giscard's who became his Secretary-General at the Elysee 19746, and then head of Credit Lyonnais 197682.

24 Baron Geoffroy de Courcel, b. 1912, was French Amba.s.sador in London 196272, and Secretary-General at the Quai d'Orsay 19737.

25 Pierre Uri, b. 1911, was Economic Adviser to the Common Market 19589.

26 Etienne Hirsch, b. 1901, was President of the Euratom Commission 195962.

27 Robert Schuman, 18861963, was Prime Minister of France 19478, and Foreign Minister 194852.

28 Monetary Compensatory Amounts are, when positive, the adjustments which make a green pound or a green franc worth more than an ordinary pound or franc, and, when negative, make a green D-mark worth less than an ordinary one. A country with positive MCAs can improve its farmers' incomes without any increase in Community agricultural prices (although at a cost to its own food price index) by reducing them.

29 Hugh Thomas, b. 1931, cr. Lord Thomas of Swynnerton 1981, was Professor of History at Reading University 196676.

30 David Watt, 193287, was a Financial Times and Times columnist, and Director of the Royal Inst.i.tute of International Affairs at Chatham House 197883.

31 Michael Stewart, b. 1906, cr. Lord Stewart of Fulham 1976, was Foreign Secretary 19656 and 196870, as well as holding other senior posts in the first Wilson Government.

32 Richard Mayne, b. 1926, had worked on Monnet's staff and translated his memoirs into English. He was head of the Commission office in London 19739.

33 She was writing a biography of him.

34 (Sir) Raymond Carr, b. 1919, was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, 196887.

35 The next meeting of the European Council, due on 7 April.

36(Sir) Victor Garland, b. 1934, became Australian High Commissioner in London 19813.

37 Marietta Tree was married to Ronald Tree (pre-1945 MP and Churchill's host at Ditchley Park during the wartime weekends of the full moon) until his death in 1976. She had been a United States representative to the United Nations 19616.

38 Professor John Mackintosh, 192978, was Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian from 1966.

39 Edward Short, b. 1912, cr. Lord Glenamara 1977, having been Lord President and leader of the House of Commons 19746. He had succeeded me as deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1972.

40 Rene Levesque, 192287, was a television reporter who became the militantly francophone and semi-separatist Premier of Quebec Province 197685.

41 In fact he postponed it to the autumn and lost it.

42 Donald Jamieson, 192186, was Minister for External Affairs 19769, and Canadian High Commissioner in London 19835.

43 (Sir) Brian Urquhart, b. 1919, was a member of the secretariat of the United Nations from 1946 to 1986, an Under-Secretary-General for the last twelve of these years.

44 John Palmer, b. 1938, was Guardian correspondent in Brussels throughout my years there and has now returned to this post.

45 Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo y Bustelo, b. 1926, was Spanish Minister for EEC Relations 197880, deputy Prime Minister 19801 and Prime Minister 19812. Now an MEP.

46 A word which, with no great respect for the literal Italian meaning, had become Commission jargon for looking at the overall problems of the admission of Greece, Portugal and Spain as opposed to the bilateral ones with each of them.

47 Otto Graf Lambsdorff, b. 1926, was German Minister of Economics 197784, when he resigned following allegations about business contributions to his party funds.

48 Robert Boulin, 192079, was French Minister-Delegate for Finance (so called because Barre, the Prime Minister, was really in charge of the department) 19778, then Minister of Labour until October 1979 when he committed suicide.

49 Christoph van der Klaauw, b. 1924, a professional diplomat, was Dutch Foreign Minister 197781, Amba.s.sador to Belgium 19816, and to Portugal since 1986.

50 Peter Jenkins, b. 1934, has been a political columnist on many newspapers and is married to Polly Toynbee.

51 Callaghan had put a paper to Carter suggesting that the summer Summit in Bonn should concentrate on the five issues of: commitment to growth, maintenance of world trade, currency stability in the long term, use of capital surpluses and the conservation of energy. There was an element of being against sin about it.

52 I.e. an outline without at this stage much substance.

53 A committee under the chairmanship of Sir Harold Wilson had been appointed in January 1977 by his successor to inquire into the functioning at home and abroad of the financial inst.i.tutions of the United Kingdom. It finally reported, without great excitement or import, in May 1980.

54 Or August 1914, as it is called in the English edition.

55(Sir) Kenneth Couzens, b. 1925, was a Second Permanent Secretary (Overseas Finance) at the Treasury 197782, and Permanent Under-Secretary, Department of Energy, 19825.

56 Harold Lever, b. 1914, cr. Lord Lever of Manchester 1979, had been my Financial Secretary at the Treasury 19679, before entering the Cabinet as Paymaster-General. He also served in this office (and the Cabinet) 19749.

57 David Ginsburg, b. 1921, Labour and later SDP MP for Dewsbury 195983; a friend since Oxford days.

58 Robert Maclennan, b. 1936, Labour and then SDP MP for Caithness and Sutherland since 1966, in 1978 a junior minister, leader of the SDP 19878.

59 Maurice Peston, b. 1931, cr. Lord Peston 1987, has been Professor of Economics at Queen Mary College, London, since 1965.

60 Basil de Ferranti, 193088, was Chairman of the Economic and Social Committee (of the Community) 19768, and a (Conservative) MEP 197988.

61 Emmanuel (Bobbie) de Margerie, b. 1924, French Amba.s.sador to Spain 197781, became Amba.s.sador in London 19814, before being transferred to Washington.

62 Michel Debre, b. 1912, had been the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic 195962, and was subsequently Minister of Finance and then of Foreign Affairs 19669. His father, Professor Robert Debre, was a leader of French medicine.

63 (Sir) Michael Howard, b. 1922, was then Chichele Professor of the History of War and has been Regius Professor of Modern History 19819.

64 Sir William Hayter, b. 1906, was British Amba.s.sador in Moscow 19537, and Warden of New College, Oxford, 195876.

65 Irwin Ross, b. 1919, is a New York journalist/author, whom I have known since 1953.

66 Then quite radical, and with more political content than today.

67 (Sir) Larry Lamb, b. 1929, was editor of the Sun 197581, and of the Daily Express 19836.

68 (Sir) Neil Marten, 191686, was the anti-Common Market Conservative MP for Banbury 195983.

69 Aldo Moro, 191678, had been Prime Minister of Italy 19638 and 19746, and was at that time President of the Christian Democratic Party.

70 I think his last; he died twelve weeks later.

71 Francesco Cossiga, b. 1928, was Italian Minister of the Interior 19768, Prime Minister 197980, President of the Senate 19835, and has been President of the Italian Republic since 1985.

72 On 11 May 4000 Zaire rebels with alleged support from Russia, Cuba, Libya and Algeria had invaded Zaire from Angola and captured the town and airport of Kolwezi. On 17 May the French decided to send in paratroops to restore the situation, and presented the Belgians, who believed they had special responsibility for the old Belgian Congo, with a fait accompli. Eventually, on 19 May, Belgian troops arrived too.

73 The 2nd Lord Kennet, b. 1923, has been a Labour and then an SDP peer.

74 Bulent Ecevit, b. 1925, was intermittently Prime Minister 19749, and intermittently imprisoned, following the military coup, 19802.

75 Francoise Giroud, b. 1916, was a State Secretary in the Giscard Government from 19746, first for Women's Affairs and then for Culture.

76 Morarji Desai, b. 1896, had been deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance 19679, was imprisoned by Mrs Gandhi from 1975 until 1977, and then became Prime Minister 19779.

77 Cf. Helmut Schmidt, entry for 7 April 1978.

78 David Ormsby Gore, 191885, succeeded as the 5th Lord Harlech in 1964. He was British Amba.s.sador in Washington 19615. He married Pamela Colin as his second wife in 1969. (Sissie, killed in a car accident in 1967, was his first wife.) 79 Lord Franks, OM, b. 1905, Amba.s.sador to Washington 194857, Provost of Worcester College 196276.

80 Sir Roger Makins, b. 1904, cr. Lord Sherfield 1964, was Amba.s.sador to Washington 19536, and then Permanent Secretary to the Treasury 19569; Chancellor of Reading University since 1970.

81 Dougla.s.s Cater, b. 1923, American academic and writer, was vice-chairman of the (London) Observer 197681.

82 Mark Heathcoat Amory, b. 1941, subsequently edited the letters of Evelyn Waugh as well as those of Ann Fleming herself. He is now literary editor of the Spectator.

83 Not to impose restrictions on imports from Third World countries.

84 Tam Dalyell, b. 1932. Labour MP since 1962. Member of the European Parliament 19759.

85 Gundelach, I had been told by some kind friend, had been making disobliging remarks about me in London. But see also the entry for 10 December 1979.

86 Andreas Whittam Smith, b. 1937, became the founder editor of the Independent in 1986.

87 Grafin von Hardenberg was the Commission's deputy Chief of Protocol.

88 Bettino Craxi, b. 1934, had become General Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party in 1976. Prime Minister of Italy 19837.

89 Brian Talboys, b. 1921, was Foreign Minister and Minister for Overseas Trade as well as deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand 197581.

90 Charles Douglas-Home, 193785, was then foreign editor of The Times. He became editor in 1982. He was married to Jessica Gwynne.

91 George Weidenfeld, b. 1919, cr. Lord Weidenfeld 1976, London and (now) New York publisher.

92 Sir Claus Moser, b. 1922, Professor of Social Statistics at LSE 196170, and head of the Government Statistical Service 196778, was Chairman of the Royal Opera House 197487. Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, since 1984.

1 Horst Schulmann was a senior official in Schmidt's Chancellery; Bernard Clappier was the Governor of the Bank of France. They were both Summit 'sherpas'. Their paper was a semi-secret Franco-German statement of methods and objectives for the Bremen European Council.

2 For 1979 and 1980. A Commissioner is nominated for four years, but a President only for two, although he is normally then reappointed.

3 Appropriate in view of the almost continuous tropical downpours with which the Bremen climate welcomed this European Council.

4 (Sir) Thomas McCaffrey, b. 1922, became chief information officer of the Home Office under me in 1966, was inherited by James Callaghan and subsequently served him as his princ.i.p.al press officer throughout his public career.

5 Tom McNally, b. 1943, was political adviser to the Prime Minister 19769, and subsequently first Labour and then SDP MP for Stockport 197983.

6 Sir Geoffrey Howe, b. 1926, was then shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, became the real Chancellor 197983, and has been Foreign Secretary since 1983.

7 Our Home Office relations had not been altogether smooth in 19656.

8 Ralf Dahrendorf, b. 1929, had been a German-appointed member of the European Commission 19704, before becoming Director of the London School of Economics 197484, and Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1987.

9 Robert Triffin, b. 1911, is a Belgian-born economist who had been Master of Berkeley College, Yale, and achieved world fame as an international monetary specialist. Having returned to live in Brussels, he was of great a.s.sistance to us in the run-up to the EMS.