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...years the Commonwealth has been linked by close economic ties between its member nations. What else holds the Commonwealth together? The vital bond, said Mackenzie King, one of Canada's most distinguished Prime Ministers, is its "community sense." What the nations share, reasoned New Zealand's late Prime Minister Peter Eraser, is "independence, with something added." To Winston Churchill, the Crown is "the mysterious link, the magic link" that binds its peoples...
...last month without the conclusive outline of terms that the government had hoped to present to this week's conference. Thus it could offer little in the way of solid assurance to the Commonwealth nations that will be hardest hit by Britain's admission to Europe: New Zealand. Australia and Canada (in that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain's toughest opposition came from the French, whose own farmers are already hard...
...easy for us" (see cartoon). Now, as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer hobnobbed in West Germany, it was plain that the road would be at best a rocky one. An outcry against Common Market membership from Prime Ministers of the "Old Dominions"-Canada's John Diefenbaker. New Zealand's Keith Holyoake. Australia's Robert Menzies-could bring Tory fortunes crashing. Menzies was notably less belligerent than he had been earlier this year, saying: "We must strike a happy medium between the insistence on our own position and recognition of the rights of other people." Holyoake, whose...
...elusive goal: the fastest mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, Jim Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.3 sec., best time ever recorded by an American, and just 1.9 seconds off the world record set last January by New Zealand's Peter Snell...
...musicians as they played. When all was said, sung, marched, tootled and done, the overall winner of the world's biggest brass-band competition was not a brass band at all but an amateur symphony orchestra-the National Youth Orchestra of Israel, which barely beat out New Zealand's National Band.* The lung-weary winner of the marching band contest was the Dutch drum band, De Trommelaere van Roesendaele...