Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher Common Market level if it is admitted in 1964, rather than postpone the increase until 1970. The British maintain that they need the transition time, both to raise the housewife's grocery bill by easy stages and to cushion the effect of high European tariffs on Commonwealth economies. European diplomats reply that Britain would do better to join the Community as fast as possible and then help influence its evolution from within...
...attempt to play a separate power role apart from Europe, a role based on a 'special relationship' with the U.S. and on being the head of a 'commonwealth' which has no political structure, unity, or strength-this role is about played out. Great Britain, attempting to work alone and to be a broker between the United States and Russia, has seemed to conduct policy as weak as its military power...
Clinging to the idea that if Russia aids India, it will not supply China, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru played up the Soviet promise to send MIG jet fighters to the Indian air force. When Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys suggested in London that chances of delivery seemed slim, Nehru retorted tartly that he had "authoritative information" that the MIGs would be Delivered...
...these days of foundations, there is a place for almost any prominent exile from the groves of Academe. Newton's haven: the presidency of Manhattan's Commonwealth Fund, a charitable foundation with assets of $120 million...
Earlier last week, the two officers, while patrolling Commonwealth Avenue on a special detail to search for parking-meter thieves, noticed Washington on the raised lawn of the Bryant and Stratton School at 2 a.m. In response to questioning from the officers, Washington gave his name, address, where he was coming from, and his destination, but maintained that the officers had no right to ask him anything else without showing good reason...