Word: spanner
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...over two years, British hostility to the Common Market has troubled relations between the NATO nations. That hostility has sometimes been less than candid. The British argued that by erecting a unified tariff wall against outside nations, the Common Market Six would throw a spanner into intra-European trade. What they really meant was that Britain's exports to the Six would be hurt. Even when they formalized the economic division of Western Europe by organizing the rival but looser seven-nation European Free Trade Association, Britain's leaders insisted that all they were trying...