Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
...Market. In Paris last week the French tactic was to propose what the British presumably could not accept-that the 17-nation area become the same sort of tightly preferential trade club with common tariff walls as the French expect the six-nation community to be. That, of course, would require the British to throw over their whole imperial preferences system of trade. Behind this French position was heavy pressure from French industrialists and farmers to stick with the six-nation community now that the West Germans and other members have conceded them practically all the special protections and privileges...
...competition. But they are also uneasily aware that the general (who respects but does not love the British) intends to chart an international course independent of his allies. The British now fear that they cannot change events before Western Europe splits into two groups-the "ins" of the six-nation community, and the "outs...
...equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each other in two world wars, and in them more than a million Britons had died...
...Pittsburgh (4-1-1)-contained Army's offense (statistically the nation's best), dominated the second half with a wide-open attack...