U.S.AND NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29734, 30 January 1962, Page 7

U.S.AND NEW ZEALAND

U.K. Paper’s Comment

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LONDON, January 28 The United States is trying to “grab” the British Commonwealth by forming its own Common Market, the "Sunday Express” said today The "Sunday Express” said that invitation* to join the American “common market” would go out to Canada, Japan, Latin America and other non-European countries, according to President John Kennedy. “Which are those other non-European countries that he has in mind?” the “Sunday Express” .asked. “Only one guess is needed. They are Australia and New Zealand Do you realise the significance of this? “It would mean that the United States, while blandly urging on Britain the economic advantages which would accrue from abandoning the Commonwealth and joining with Europe, would in effect be grabbing the Commonwealth for herself. “They realise what tremendous advantages to their economy would flow from such an arrangement. “Yet we, who already enjoy those advantages, are prepared to throw them away for the imaginary benefits of the Common Market.” the “Sunday Express” added. The "Sunday Times” called Mr Kennedy's demand to Congress for powers to negotiate with the European Common Market “exhilarating ” “President Kennedy's policy, going much farther than our own comparatively timid intentions towards globalising the Common Market, would make it the basis of a huge area of free, or at least much freer trade, including every country with which the United States has most-favoured-nation treaties “This is wholly in conflict with the introspective, third force element in Common Market ideology,” said the “Sunday Times.”