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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...
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...
...Delhi, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman sat through a grueling round of conferences with Indian officials. Their mission was twofold: to organize military aid to beleaguered India, and to seek an end to India's long festering dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. The controversy dates back to independence in 1947, when the Hindu ruler of Kashmir opted to join India instead of Moslem Pakistan, despite the fact that 77% of the province is Moslem. Bloody violence erupted; the United Nations proposed a plebiscite as a means of settling...
...sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will be approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club, a private club charged with setting the rules for England and the Commonwealth. Then there will no longer be either Gentlemen or Players, just Cricketers...