Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anglo-Saxons."* Britain's idea of its special relationship with the U.S. was keenly resented by De Gaulle and suspected by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The British, in turn, saw in the close alliance between Bonn and Paris and in the growing unity of the six Common Market nations a move to isolate Britain from the Continent...
Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
...their lowest ebb in years. To intimates. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer confided his dark suspicions that British foreign policy was prepared to offer the Germans up on a platter to achieve easier relations with Russia. The six continental nations who had allied themselves in the budding Common Market were convinced that Britain, with its free-trade counterproposals, had been trying to destroy unity on the Continent. The suspicions were often exaggerated, but Britain, whose influence on the Continent was once enormous, now finds itself more and more on the outside looking...
...Europe on behalf of the ideal. Britain's explanation for staying out has always been the theory of the three overlapping circles of British policy. One circle is Britain and its Commonwealth; another is Britain and the U.S.; a third, Britain and Europe. Of these three circles, Common-Market Europe-representing only 15% of Britain's trade-comes third. The British argue that they could not join the Common Market without weakening their ties with the Commonwealth (some Commonwealth members dispute this), or accept common footing with the continental countries without destroying Britain's "special relationship" with...
...truckers of the nation will start to reap tremendous profits as the railroads grind to a stop. In the long run, however, the entire cost of the strike will be borne by the American tire cost of the strike will be borne by the American public--an all-too common occurrence these days...