Title
Visits by Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Geoffrey Rippon, to North America, 4-9 March (Folder 4) (1971).
Summary
Description: Record of meetings with Jean-Luc Pepin (Canadian Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce) and with Clifford Hardin (US Secretary of Agriculture) and Maurice Stans (US Secretary of Commerce). Topics include British entry into EEC, trade, the economy, agricultural products, industrial commodities, tariffs, GATT, protectionism and preference schemes. Briefing notes for visit to Ottawa. Briefing papers for US visit on European Defense and Security, US agricultural exports and impact of enlarged EEC. Personality notes on US Government officials. The first half of the file relates to the March 1971 trip to Canada and the US. Also included in this file are various draft texts for Rippon's speech delivered in New Orleans in January 1972 on "The Effects of the Enlargement of the European Communities on the Anglo-American Relationship" and the text of his speech in Los Angeles in January 1972 again on the subject of British application for membership of the EEC. US/UK relations. Notes in preparation for Rippon's visit to United States and Jamaica, including California and Louisiana, in December 1971/January 1972.
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The Nixon years, 1969-1974.