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...make their language "the common possession of the whole world," urged Eccles, English-speaking nations should launch an intensive campaign to improve mass teaching media, make available texts, film strips, records, books, radio and TV courses. The U.S. and the Commonwealth should also send "the greatest possible number of experts" to teacher training colleges throughout the worM...
...Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein blared: "I say we must not join Europe.'' Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah denounced Britain's plans to enter the Market and found himself in tune with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, usually no friend of the Commonwealth's black members...
...change, both politically and economically. Are we to be excluded from these developments? There are some who say that if we take part in them, we shall not be able to influence them. How much the less one can influence them from the outside. Will the U.S. or the Commonwealth look on us as better or more valuable partners if we remain outside the main stream of European growth...
...critical. "It is extremely foolish," he said, "to give the impression that we can carry through the whole of this operation without tears, and that there will be no difficulties whatever." But to keep the tears limited, Gaitskell wants the government to be guided by the wishes of the Commonwealth, a view not shared by Macmillan, who has consistently declared that the decision belongs to Britain alone...
Europe's Common Market is doing so well that it is now worrying outsiders, both friendly and otherwise. Nikita Khrushchev has been huffing and puffing against it, and Commonwealth nations have been warning Britain not to abandon them in her eagerness to join (see THE WORLD). The Latin American nations recently sent a delegation to Brussels to protest against a Common Market ruling that will impose a 16% duty on Latin American coffee but admit coffee from France's former African colonies duty-free...