WORLD : Thatcher Suggests Rights Code
In a speech to the Czech Parliament today, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proposed that a 35-nation summit this fall adopt a universal code of rights for Europe and North America.
She also urged that the 12-nation European Community offer full membership to Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe’s other new democracies as soon as they have introduced Western-style economies.
Thatcher was addressing Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected legislature in five decades.
Thatcher also apologized for the 1938 Munich Treaty, in which Britain endorsed Adolf Hitler’s division of this Central European nation. “We failed you in 1938, when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence,” she said.
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