Responding to De Gaulle's veto of Britain's entry into the European Common Market, Neville quotes a British Foreign Office memorandum dated 1 May 1920 that predicted the French would never truly befriend Britain except for their own advantage. He tells his 29 January 1963 audience the memorandum lay secret in the Foreign Office archives for forty-three years, becoming public only in an English newspaper report he had read the previous Sunday.