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...over policy differences with them, two of the leading candidates for the top job turned it down flat, and Charles de Gaulle vetoed a third. Who, after all, wanted to tangle with the French? Finally, almost by default, the job went to a diminutive and quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time seemed to be that he was the only candidate De Gaulle would accept, the Common Market partners feared that he might prove to be merely a puppet for De Gaulle...
Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
Died. Adolf Johannes de la Rey, 91, South African cattle farmer and provincial politician, who in 1899, as a Boer War guerrilla, captured a British journalist named Winston S. Churchill, a misfortune that Churchill subsequently observed "was to lay the foundations of my later life," when his escape within four weeks made him an instant national hero and prime parliamentary candidate back home; of a stroke; near Johannesburg...
...adjourned, the leaders also agreed to press ahead with the plan to integrate into one organization on July 1 the three agencies of European cooperation-the Common Market, Euratom, and the Coal and Steel Community. In as chairman of the expanded commission will come Belgium's able Jean Rey, 64, replacing the Common Market's longtime chief, Walter Hallstein, who is leaving under pressure from De Gaulle because he placed too much emphasis on the Common Market's supranational nature...
...tariff schedules, only 211 were excluded entirely from the negotiations (among them: petroleum, sheet glass, zinc, lead, safety pins, umbrella frames, briar pipes and baseball gloves). The Common Market kept such items as heavy commercial vehicles and computers (except for those using punch cards) out of the dickering. Jean Rey, the Belgian chief negotiator for the Common Market, called his group "extremely satisfied" with the outcome-a reaction echoed by most governments. Secretary of State Dean Rusk called the results "a fair balance, with some special advantages...