COMMON MARKET

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28894, 14 May 1959, Page 11

COMMON MARKET

i “U.S. Opposed To ’ Empire Link” (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 12. The “Journal of Commerce” re- ' ported today that the United s States would “look with extreme y disfavour on any attempt to join the British Commonwealth with ’ the European Common Market in n a massive preferential trading r bloc.” ( i- The newspaper said in a Wash- ( ington dispatch: “The United ' States would find such an alliance 11 so distasteful, it is the consensus of the international experts here, ; r that it would actively oppose a if Commonwealth Euromart link-up l- —even though the country so far y has scrupulously avoided involver. ment in the intra-European o struggle for economic integrad tion.” The “Commonwealth-Europe d Economic Association,” was pro;e posed by the chairman of the a European Industrial Conference g (Sir Edward Beddingtonj- Behrens), the “Journal of Com»s merce” said. ;o Validity of Health Stamps.— is All health stamps issued since n 1946—and not 1956, as published ig on Monday—are accepted by the it Post Office on all classes of mail. ie The reference was in an article »n about the handling of mail at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch.