COPLAND ON E.E.C.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 18

COPLAND ON E.E.C.

Commonwealth Would Benefit

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. February 4. The noted Australian economist. Sir Douglas Copland has expressed the view that Australia, along with most Commonwealth countries, would be a “net beneficiary” from a British union with the Common Market

In an article published in the "Guardian,'’ he said: "If is true that adjustments will have to be made, but if these adjustments are based on developments that promote economic growth, surely it is obvious that Australia, as a young country with an enormous estate to develop, will in common with most members of the Commonwealth be a net beneficiary.’’

Sir Douglas Copland added: “A vigorous Common Market and a new concept of American economic influence now being developed by its youngest President, surely present the path to wisdom for the West as a whole and the basis upon which the new challenge of economic power by the Communist world can and should be met,” “Ennobling” Sir Douglas Copland said that British membership of the Common Market “may well result in founding a new and constructive political and economic unit in Western Europe, with a decisive and ennobling influence on the course of history in the years immediately ahead.

“To dwell on the problems of trade as the determining factor in the situation is to ignore the more basic and long-term political and economic forces that have already been set in motion by the rapid development of the European Economic Community.”