Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of Berlin, last night called for a universal "club" of all nations anxious to advance world trade and raise world standards of living...
...would be disastrous if England did not join the Community," Brandt declared, "for France and West Germany alone are not Europe." The mayor also warned that the problems of the British Commonwealth must be solved, so those nations "can maintain their stabilizing influence in world politics...
...revolutionary proposal for a "club" of nations, Brandt suggested that the group should offer its members mutual aid and the scaling down of customs barriers. He indicated that the Common Market might in time be expanded into an intercontinental body...
...Brandt asserted that the Common Market has shown the new "dynamism of the West," but warned that the Market must not be open to Soviet charges of "economic colonialism in disguise." He urged that the West give serious thought to Soviet and neutralist proposals for an international trade conference, and "at least concider the agenda of such a meeting...
...Brandt, who has served as Mayor of Berlin since 1957, is chairman of the Social Democratic Party in West Berlin and was a member of the first and second West German parliaments after World War II. He has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 1950 and served as its president...