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Three weeks ago France, after a year of fruitless negotiation, declared that "it is not possible to create the Free Trade Area as desired by the British." Dismayed and outraged, British spokesmen accused France's protection-loving industrialists of trying to turn the Common Market into an exclusive high-tariff club. Such a step, warned the British, would split Europe into two hostile economic camps. British fears are shared by many, including West Germany's free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...course there had to be someone to succeed Sinclair Weeks. The country must have a Secretary of Commerce because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone in the Cabinet to speak for big business. And big business does need spokesmen...
...three spokesmen for the cheerleaders felt that the decision would eventually be "for the good of Harvard cheerleading" and that, for all intents and purposes, "debate on this whole issue is finished...
...considers that the restoration of freedom to its people on the mainland is its sacred mission [and that] the principal means of successfully achieving its mission is the implementation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, and not the use of force."* Free China spokesmen later insisted that this declaration did not bind Chiang to hold back if a Hungary-type uprising broke out on the mainland. For the U.S.'s part, Dulles explicitly recognized in the joint communique that "under the present conditions" (i.e., as long as the Red Chinese keep up acts...
...peacefully." The British government, moved by its fisheries "war" with Iceland (see below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events in the Formosa Strait. But in private, British Foreign Office spokesmen made no bones of their lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of active U.S. participation in defense of the offshore islands...