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This diary provides the qualifications to two vital issues: our relations with the Western Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better skilled to know how we arrived where we could than the later Roy Jenkins. Over this journal, he was president of the European Commission. The journal offers a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding boring, and of the importance of personal connections with world market leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Wayne Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, and Jimmy Carter. In addition to the political chronicle, we've frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the writer, his preferences and preoccupations, from which emerges a guy more imbued with general population enthusiasm, more eccentric and with a more diverse private life than many listeners may expect. His delicate perception of men and women is unveiled in outstanding portraits of, for example, Schmidt (pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet, and yet notably constructive) and Giscard d'Estaing (highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous). For all those concerned with what sort of world is producing and the impact of the civilized and essentially private personality on general population events, European Journal is compulsory listening. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) offered in several major articles in Harold Wilson's First Federal government so that as Home Secretary from 1965-67. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of the great years of United kingdom parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in a significant different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith, and Lloyd George.
