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...days Commonwealth leaders battled Britain's government with every wile and weapon. But for all their threats that Britain's admission to the European Common Market will irrevocably weaken - if not destroy - the 15-nation partnership, the Commonwealth Prime Ministers wound up their conference in London last week by conceding that "the final decision would rest with the British government." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced jubilantly: "I am very pleased. Everything is fine...
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...
...television industry to present the views of major candidates to the people of Massachusetts. Kennedy does not control the television industry in Massachusetts, and whether or not he chooses to appear at John Hancock Hall this Saturday, the views of his opponents deserve the fullest possible exposure to the Commonwealth...