COMMON MARKET

Press, Volume C, Issue 29535, 9 June 1961, Page 13

COMMON MARKET

“Macmillan Hustled” (N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, June 8. Another British newspaper—the “Daily Express - ' —claimed today that President Kennedy had told Mr Macmillan Britain should join the European Common Market. The “Daily Mirror” and the "Daily Worker” have already published similar accounts of the talks between the President and the Prime Minister. In a report of what it called the "undisclosed details’’ of the talks, the “Daily Express" said: “Though the tone of their discussion was friendly, Mr Kennedy pulled no punches. Early on he explained why he had made no effort to press General de Gaulle in Paris on the issue of Britain’s joining the Common Market. “It had been the Prime Minister’s hope that Mi Kennedy would act as middleman to bring the general round to some compromised solution. "But Mr Kennedy told him that in his view the time had come for Britain to offer to sign the Rome Treaty—-basis of the Common Market set-up—without conditions, and then propose immediate Government-to-Government negotiations. “Instead,” the report said, “he told Mr Macmillan Britain refused to make clear, her policy on the Common Market and nobody knew what her real purposes were.” Editorially. the “Daily Express” strongly opposes Britain’s entry into the Common Market.