Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus buoyed, Wilson went on to speak confidently on what is likely to become a hotly contested issue of the campaign -British entry into Europe's six-nation Common Market. "If they, the Six, are ready for negotiations to begin, we are ready," he said. "We no longer face the challenge of Europe cap in hand...
Britain's new antiMarket mood was disappointing to EEC members. In 1961 and 1967, London submitted earnest, almost desperate applications for membership, only to see them unceremoniously vetoed by Charles de Gaulle. When the general was replaced last June by a French government more sympathetic to British entry, the Common Market ministers quickly began studying the possibility of reopening negotiations with Britain and three other applicants (Ireland, Norway and Denmark...
...Britain's cost of living, social security and independence in economic planning-as well as public disclosure of negotiation results. Wilson is in no way bound to abide by the resolution, but it clearly placed a political speed limit on the hopes of those who advocate quick British entry...
...more than two years, Anthony Grey's world was a 12-ft.-sq. whitewashed room in Peking. He lived in a void: no one spoke to him and, except for three brief calls by British diplomats, no one was permitted to visit him. Outside the open door of his room stood an armed guard, and others ringed the walled compound of the house. Last week, after 26 months of mind-numbing confinement, the Chinese government suddenly released Grey, a 30-year-old correspondent for Britain's Reuters wire service...
Grey was originally confined without charges in July 1967. It was Peking's retribution for the arrest and later imprisonment of eight Communist Chinese newsmen by the Hong Kong government following Maoist riots in the British colony. After the eight were freed, Peking announced that Grey would not be freed until 13 more Communist newspaper and news-agency employees were released from jail in the crown colony. The Hong Kong government refused to bow to such blackmail. The men served most of their sentences, and last week, the 13th was finally released. Soon afterward, Grey was taken...