Word: trading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's Konrad Adenauer confided his dark suspicions that British foreign policy was prepared to offer the Germans up on a platter to achieve easier relations with Russia. The six continental nations who had allied themselves in the budding Common Market were convinced that Britain, with its free-trade counterproposals, had been trying to destroy unity on the Continent. The suspicions were often exaggerated, but Britain, whose influence on the Continent was once enormous, now finds itself more and more on the outside looking...
...explanation for staying out has always been the theory of the three overlapping circles of British policy. One circle is Britain and its Commonwealth; another is Britain and the U.S.; a third, Britain and Europe. Of these three circles, Common-Market Europe-representing only 15% of Britain's trade-comes third. The British argue that they could not join the Common Market without weakening their ties with the Commonwealth (some Commonwealth members dispute this), or accept common footing with the continental countries without destroying Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S. Though no longer a dominant power, Britain...
...alliance of the six continental nations has momentum on its side. Belgium, with the support of France, is now proposing that the Common Market mechanism be broadened to include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven, bringing Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal into a loose tariff agreement. But the British, who privately admit that the Outer Seven is a patchwork job, now describe it as "a pier from which...
...Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that traditional North German trade ties to Britain and Scandinavia would be hurt...
...Federal Trade Commission was harder to sway. Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine...