Word: commonwealth
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...years the Commonwealth has been linked by close economic ties between its member nations. What else holds the Commonwealth together? The vital bond, said Mackenzie King, one of Canada's most distinguished Prime Ministers, is its "community sense." What the nations share, reasoned New Zealand's late Prime Minister Peter Eraser, is "independence, with something added." To Winston Churchill, the Crown is "the mysterious link, the magic link" that binds its peoples...
...easy phrase can encompass the Commonwealth's diverse but like-minded, vague sounding but specific, loosely linked but powerfully woven partnership of more than 700 million people on six continents. Last week Canada's John Diefenbaker and Australia's Robert Menzies warned that by ending the Commonwealth's preferential trading agreements, Britain would cripple the Commonwealth itself. But there are many other concrete bonds between its members. Among them...
Legislation & Law. The common pattern of parliamentary procedure follows the British model, even to the traditional mace, wigs and dispatch boxes of Westminster. The 51-year-old Commonwealth Parliamentary Association shuttles a constant stream of M.P.s through legislative halls around the world. Though all of its former colonies do not share Britain's respect for justice, the basis of the judiciary system is English common law everywhere except in Ceylon (where the precedent is Roman Dutch law). The most humble Nigerian native can, as a Commonwealth citizen, appeal to the mightiest judges in Britain through the Queen...
...conference comes at a particularly sensitive time. Britain's negotiating team left Brussels last month without the conclusive outline of terms that the government had hoped to present to this week's conference. Thus it could offer little in the way of solid assurance to the Commonwealth nations that will be hardest hit by Britain's admission to Europe: New Zealand. Australia and Canada (in that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain...
...Tough Moments Ahead." While the Eurocrats go hammer and tongs at the task of welding the new Europe (see WORLD BUSINESS), the Commonwealth still must make the emotional and intellectual adjustments that come harder than economic concessions. As they planned for a new round of negotiations, starting next month, most Common Market statesmen sympathetically acknowledged the obstacles in the way of British membership. Shrugged one diplomat in Brussels last week: "There will be tough moments ahead." He added: "But it will be. It will...