Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yourself braumeisters fired off a stiff protest to Welensky, pointing out that home brewing "has taken place in the United Kingdom for centuries, and as the British emigrated to the colonies, this tradition has been accepted as the birthright of the ordinary man by every government of the Commonwealth...
Britain's blizzards were oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while...
...they can tag along respectfully as camp followers, with little more weight or voice than tiny Luxembourg. Britain is rejected as unfit economically or politically to join this band of continental brothers because it 1) is an offshore island, and 2) has "special ties" with the U.S. and the Commonwealth. To De Gaulle's jaundiced eye. the British attempt to enter the Common Market was simply a Trojan horse maneuver (an expression used with suspicious frequency in Parisian editorials and salons last week) staged by Washington to make sure that the U.S. domination of Europe would not be frustrated...
...scene of Britain's dashed hopes last week, is a dour, neon-lit old maid of a city. On Monday, the cobbled streets were slimy with black slush and blanketed with chilling fog as Britain's chief negotiator. Edward Heath, arrived with his aides. Minister for Commonwealth Affairs Duncan Sandys and Agriculture Minister Christopher Soames. The French, with a fine sense of economy, traveled light; only Luxembourg's four-man delegation was smaller. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville brought only an overnight case, for he knew that he would not be staying long...
Export Worries. Britain's existing economic ties to the Common Market are already too strong for even Charles de Gaulle to break. While trade with the Commonwealth slackened, British sales to the Common Market increased an impressive 17% last year. Still, British businessmen worry about how their exports would fare in case of a European recession or when the Common Market applies a standard 15% to 25% external tariff by 1969. Clearly, if Britain is to survive as a major industrial power alongside, instead of inside, the Common Market, British industry must improve its productivity so that its goods...