Treaty Of Rome

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 14

Treaty Of Rome

Sir, —Your footnote to my letter in Monday’s issue is an indication of the extent to which world planners have progressed in their drive to move the balance of power beyond national boundaries. You would have us reduced to a nation of dewy-eyed world planners anxious to hand ultimate power to an organisation beyond our control. The Crown has the sovereign power to refuse assent to an Act of Parliament It is necessary at times for a country to make a treaty with another Power, but the terms are set out in the treaty, as are the liabilities. But in the case of the Treaty of Rome, Britain

would become one of seven nations to whom would be handed the powers to make laws which would not require the assent of our Queen. Parliament may find that it has signed its own death warrant, but then it may be too late.—Yours, etc., W. B. BRAY. Leeston, July 19, 1966. [What “we” would have “us” do (or Mr Bray’s assumption thereon) is of small account; neither our views nor his are likely to weigh heavily with the United Kingdom Government What we can do is recognise facts as facts. One fact is that Parliament not the Monarch, makes the law in the United Kingdom. If . the British Parliament votes to join the Common Market, the formal Royal Assent (which Mr Bray erroneously referred to in an earlier letter as a power of veto) is no more likely to be withheld than the British Government is likely to be deterred by Mr Bray’s anguished cries of “Treason!” —Ed., “The Press.”]