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Peabody has served as a member of the Governor's Executive Council and was an All-American guard during football days at the College. He has promised "a return to decent government in the Commonwealth" and billed himself as "the only Democrat who can beat (Gov. John A.) Volpe in November." It was Peabody's first convention victory in three tries...
Clearly, the Common Market was uppermost in Harold Macmillan's mind. What price must Britain pay to enter Europe? The step now seemed inevitable, but at fearsome risk to Britain's Commonwealth ties. Charles de Gaulle fears the influence of the U.S.-British alliance in Europe; does he so savor the vision of France as No. 1 nation on the Continent that he would actively try to keep Britain out forever...
...veil came off with the parley's first agreement on a specific hurdle: Britain proposed to abandon Commonwealth preferential tariffs on a list of 400 manufactured goods it normally imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared...
Turning to Neighbors. To help revive the looted economy, the U.S. rushed $35.2 million in aid. For economic advisers the Council sensibly turned to the neighboring U.S. island Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which speaks the same language and has plenty of economic experience. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin sent his experts to draw plans for a Dominican Industrial Development Corp., capitalized with $41 million in seized Trujillo assets. Puerto Rican specialists drafted a Dominican income tax law hiking levies on the rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country...
Howe reserved his greatest praise, though, for Peabody's devotion to local affairs. "Whatever Peabody has done, he has always made the public business of the Commonwealth his main concern," he said. In contrast, Howe blasted Senate candidate Edward M. Kennedy '54 for overlooking state problems in "his preposterous attempt to get to the top quickly...