Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Subject: what to do about the impending division of Western Europe into two rival economic blocs. This was the topic that alarmed Macmillan. The British talk of building a bridge to draw together their Outer Seven and the bigger Common Market Six. U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon returned from a European tour last month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between the two developing trading groups, if only to protect its own trade interests. But Washington was not particularly interested in bridging or blending the two groups...