“ONE MAN’S HAVOC”

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 11

“ONE MAN’S HAVOC”

Defeat For 1 West Seen (NZJ>A.-lt«utaT-CepvTWhO NEW YORK, Jan. 30 The “New York Tinies" today described tite breakdown of negotiations ter Britain s entry into the European Common Market as “victory for President de Gaulle and defeat tor the rest of the Western world.” It said that seldom tn modern times, except under conditions of outright dictatorship had “the will of cue man created such havoc. The oroblem tor the West was to “tide over the three years until General de Gaulle’s term as Pisaldegt ; ends.* But, It said, the difficulty was thrt “Great Britain cannot simply do nothing < while her economy deterior“Every other nation tn the West beside France, should now be thinking how to minimise the damage that President de Gaulle has done “It is an irony of bistoi? that he has torn the fab™ of Western unity at the same moment that the Communist world was spin b" Mao Tse-tung. “A Europe based an a Franco-German axis will on more endure than the prewar Europe of the ItalianGerman Axis." raid the newspaper's editorial, which was written for the newspaper’s West Coast and European editions but not printed in New York because of the New York newspaper strike.