Word: brits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, also back from a visit to Brit ain, told the Bundestag that "a negative decision would mean stagnation...
Friendly Five. To avoid a head-on collision with France, the ministers of the "friendly Five" worked out a com promise formula that is not likely to satisfy anyone completely but may cool matters. The formula agrees that Brit ain should be given a definite answer to its application by the Six this week, just as London demands. But it further provides that if France's intransigence prevents a unanimous reply, as seems certain, the whole matter will be put off and discussed later...
Then, after a week of abuse against the Western nations as "imperialist masters" of Israel-and particularly against the U.S., which Nasser called "the main enemy" for its support of Israel-it called once more on the U.S. and Brit ain to "use their influence on Israel to make it stop its provocations...
Economic boycotts are by now a familiar, if not quite believable, story to Rhodesia's rebellious whites. The Brit ish declared one against them in 1965 without much noticeable effect, and the United Nations Security Council imposed another one against them four months ago, ditto. Last week, however, Prime Minister Ian Smith advised his countrymen that they could expect an inch or so of pinch. "It seems as though the whole business is going to be drawn out longer than we thought," said Smith. "I do not think it necessarily means austerity, but I believe that Rhodesians must accept...