Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the closing hours of the conference. Commonwealth leaders had threatened to sign dissenting communiques embodying the dire strictures they had delivered at Marlborough House; an even greater danger was that they would demand concessions to accommodate all their special trading interests that the Six could not possibly grant...
Fading Fiction. What swayed the Commonwealth Prime Ministers was a blunt 50-minute speech by Harold Macmillan. Though Britain's membership in the Common Market will end special tariff concessions to Commonwealth imports, Macmillan pointed out that these are in any case a fading fiction which Britain can no longer afford; Commonwealth nations-and several have better living standards than Britain-raise ever higher tariff walls against British goods. On the other hand, argued Macmillan, as a member of the European Community, a prosperous Britain will be able to invest in less developed Commonwealth countries and help formulate worldwide...
...conferences with European ministers before formal negotiations with the Six reopen next month. However, the government's biggest battle may not take place in Brussels, but in Britain itself. Opinion polls have shown that opposition to Macmillan's "grand design" is rising steadily at home. The Commonwealth leaders' warnings reinforced an improbable but disturbing alliance between the Tory Party's own jingo fringe and Commonwealth Firsters in the Labor Party...
Both at home and in Brussels, Macmillan's case was damaged by Labor's Hugh Gaitskell; out-Blimping the Blimps, he harrumphed that Britain's admission to Europe would mean "the end of the Commonwealth and 1,000 years of history." Gaitskell's call to arms was partly offset by a Europe-minded group of Laborites who claimed the support of 80 Socialist M.P.s-almost one-third of the party's membership in Parliament. Almost unanimously, the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) also ranged itself behind the bidding in Brussels...
B.H.P. today produces virtually 100% of Australia's steel and is the country's biggest publicly held company. Although B.H.P.'s total annual capacity of 4,000,0000 tons is less than Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant, it is the British Commonwealth's biggest steelmaker, with sales of some $413 million in the last fiscal year. Through 16 subsidiaries it makes everything from nails and rails to tools and tars, operates a fleet of 14 cargo ships and a shipyard, and is probing for oil off the Australian coast...