Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy and Benelux). If Spain and Portugal join, they are likely to be swamped with tariff-free industrial imports, cheaper and better than comparable products of their own; if they stay out, French and Italian farmers and merchants, operating behind the Common Market customs wall, may take away the European markets for such Spanish and Portuguese products as citrus fruits, cork, wine, sardines and pyrite...
...next five years. French authorities, plagued by a dangerously unfavorable balance of trade, gloomily decided that, for the time being, they would have to disregard the fundamental principle of the Common Market, and temporarily restored import quotas on about 2,000 items that France buys from her European trading partners...
...sell her manufactures in a tariff-free market of six nations and 160 million people, while Britain is walled out. Impelled by this vision, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft last year proposed a plan for a wider Free Trade Area of 16 European nations-including the Common Market six-which would exchange manufactured goods free of tariff but keep national tariffs on agricultural products. This would allow Britain to continue giving imperial preference to agricultural imports from the Commonwealth, and enable her to escape an agonizing either/ or choice between the Commonwealth and Europe...
Loss of Authority. Last week, on the night of the French Common Market vote, Macmillan and his old chieftain, Sir Winston Churchill, addressed a rally of the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement. Sir Winston worked up a little of his oldtime vigor in his peroration: "My message to Europe is still the same as it was ten years ago-unite!" When Macmillan got up to speak he was heckled by a group of empire-minded Tory diehards (seven were evicted). Macmillan pitched his arguments to their prejudices: he knew that they fear the diminution of Britain...
Macmillan was more determined than ever to push ahead with a European Free Trade Area, linked with the six-nation Common Market. "This is an opportunity which we cannot miss," said Macmillan. "It may not come again...