Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solitary Prosperity. Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies drove home the attack with the argument that loss of the tariff-free British market for their exports would mean that Commonwealth nations would have to finance Britain's Common Market membership. Said he: "Clearly part of the initial price, and perhaps the final price, is to be paid by us!" Added India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: "I do not see how the Commonwealth will survive unless a radical change is made in the present proposals...
...Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
Advice for Mother. Yet, for all their protestations, most of the Commonwealth leaders know tht there can be no alternative for Britain. Shrugged Jamaica's Bustamante: "Britain is going in, no matter what we say, and no matter whom it hurts...
...taken years of painful soul searching for Macmillan's Cabinet to reach the decision to join the vital new Europe, even if it meant the end of a relationship that has long ceased to be that of mother and daughters save in sentiment. If the Commonwealth does not agree, said the Economist last week, "Mother would then be well advised to switch off her deaf-aid and go on regardless with the course of action that is necessary...
...Harold Macmillan, there could be no question of switching off the hearing aid. The Commonwealth's sustained offensive significantly swelled anti-Europe sentiment in Britain at a time when Macmillan's government is already dangerously weak. The raucous debate strengthened the hand of the 4O-odd right-wing Tory rebels who would like nothing better than to retreat from Europe. And, after a year of cagey fence straddling, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell vaulted into the debate to decry the Common Market's terms of admission as "too damaging to be acceptable." The Labor Party, he hinted...