Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luncheons and one dinner). They ranged over the entire spectrum of Common Market issues. Meeting mostly in the gold-and-tapestried Salon Doré, occasionally strolling in the Elysée's tree shaded back garden, they dealt with two unresolved questions: preferential treatment for New Zealand, to which Britain has highly emotional ties; and the role of sterling. On both issues, Heath was heartened by Pompidou's reasonableness. The two men concurred that some accommodation was manageable on granting access to New Zealand butter and cheese; they instructed their negotiators in Brussels to work out details. Regarding...
...that the Common Market would inherit the responsibility for sterling which, as a reserve currency, is subject to the stresses of the sort that have recently beset the dollar. As a result, the French want London to discourage foreign countries from holding sterling balances. The other issue is New Zealand, whose entire economy depends on exports of lamb, butter and other agricultural products to Britain. Last month New Zealand's Premier Sir Keith Holyoake presented his country's case to Pompidou, who acknowledged New Zealand's ties of "emotion, sympathy, culture and blood" to Europe. But Pompidou...
...pullout east of Suez that was pledged by Labor's Harold Wilson in 1968. But the harsh imperatives of economics have forced Heath to adopt Wilson's policy-with one important change. A loosely knit, five-power "consultative defense arrangement" with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand is scheduled to come into effect...
...DLJGGAN, S.M. Greenmeadows, New Zealand...
Britain is under pressure from Commonwealth countries to help them gain at least a measure of access to the EEC's highly protectionist trading area for agricultural products. Last week New Zealand's Prime Minister, Sir Keith Holyoake, flew to London to begin a tour of three capitals, reminding Europe that Britain's joining the EEC without safeguarding the economic interests of the Commonwealth would mean "disaster" for New Zealand. Though France is opposed to Britain's trade preferences for Commonwealth countries, concessions for New Zealand butter and sugar from former Caribbean and Pacific possessions...