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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Under the
European Common Market.
Western Europe has risen to
heights of unprecedented pros
perity and looks ahead to po
litical as well as economic un
ity. But formidable obstacles
still lie In the way ol final
success. In the following dis
patch, the first of three. HIM
Foreign News Analyst I'hll
Newsom discusses progress of
the Common Market up to now
and the Issues which will de
termine whether this bold at
tempt to reshape the map of
Europe Is to be miracle or
mirage.)
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In prosperous, busy Brussels,
Christmas lights glow through
the chill misls of early evening.
In the streets. French Pcuge
ots nudge German Volkswagens
in holiday traffic that scarcely
moves.
In Brussels' largest department
store, Yvette Vandenborre. a
pretty Belgian housewife, and
her litUe daughter, Karin, move
slowly along packed aisles to ad
mire Dutch furniture, German
toys and a stuffed poodle made
in Italy.
Brussels is the headquarters
city of the six-nation Common
Market. lis prosperity is an ac
curate reflection of an explosive
phenomenon which has booster
to unprecedented heights the
economics of Belgium. France
West Germany, Italy, The Neth
erlands and Luxembourg.
May Be Mirage
But beneath the smooth sur-
lace other currents are moving
which will determine whether
European community ever is
be anything but a trading bloc
and whether the dream of uni
is to prove a mirage which dis
appears before the harsh reali
ties of nationalism, ancient ha
trcds and the ambitions of indi
vidual men
This correspondent, on the
tbird trip to Europe this year
to assess and report on progress
of the Common Market, found
these elements at work.
The British government
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
Ian, which has staked its future
on British entry into the Com
mon Market, has been ncgotia
ling with the six for more than
a year without success. Mean
while, British policy-making, both
foreign and domestic, remains in
a stale of paralysis.
President Charles de Gaulle
of France, aiming at European
leadership, is indifferent if not
actively hostile to British mem
bership. Dc Gaulle, instead, lia:
proposed that France and West
Germany should step up imme
diately their organic coopera
tion," without waiting for Euro
pean political unity as a uhole
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Small .Nation's Suspicious
The small nations, notably
Belgium and The Netherlands,
suspect De Gaulle's motives and
are especially fearful of a Paris-
Bonn axis which would reduce!
them to the rank of second-class
citizens in the community. They
(eel that British membership is
essential, if only as a modifying
factor.
A feeling among top Com
mon Market leadership, although
not shared by all, that Britain
herself is negotiating from an
unrealistic position and that, de
spite the consequences. British
entry may be delayed for as
long as five years or more.
Beyond the polite, cautious
words at the negotiating table,
the British are grimly deter
mined to "negotiate and negoti
ate and negotiate," indefinitely.
But in private they frankly
share the small nations' distrust
of Dc Gaulle's projected Paris-
Bonn axis and his good faith
when it comes to permitting
British entry.
Bitterly remarked one member
of the British delegation:
I think that if we offered to
day to come in on their terms
they would think of something
that we overlooked.
Other elements complicate the
British government position.
Interests of Commonwealth
One is her attempt to protect
the interests of the Common
wealh nations with whom she
has traditional tics.
Another is an approaching
British election which must be
held at the latest in October,
I9S4. The Labor party has hard
ened its position against British
entry except on specific and fa-
orable terms.
In the House of Commons, La-
borile Harold Wilson, a member
f the parly's "shadow cabinet."
witled Lord Privy Seal Edward
Heath that more than a year
f negotiations so far had netted
not much more than free Com
mon Market entry for kangaroo
meat
The charge was uncomfortably
lose to the truth.
Heath's task is made the more
formidable by stubborn refusal
the six to reopen tlieir own
hard-won agreement on agricul
lure which was reached at 5:2!:
m. last Jan, 14, after ncgoli-
tors had slopped the clock ami
two of them had suffered heart
attacks,
A chief stumbling block and a
good example is the question of
wheat.
Within the Common Market,
German support prices are the
highest. French the lowest.
British Supports Lowest
British supports, following Brit
ain's traditional cheap food poli
cies, are the lowest of all.
By 1970, prices are scheduled
uj become uniform througliout
the six, reducing high and un
economic German farm prices to
a level still not determined but
probably somewhere around the
present French level.
For Britain it would raise con
sumer prices an estimated 12
per cent.
Britain has agreed to meet the
1970 deadline but has asked for
certain interim concessions to
help ease the economic blow.
She also has sought some de
lay in the levy of duties on
irains and other agricultural
products from Commonwealth
nations which now enter Britain
duty-free, and for firm assur
ances that Commonwealth ex
ports will not be priced out of
the Common Market by exces
sively high duties.
Both Requests Refused
On both requests she has met
adamant refusal.
Britain's position is that she
is fighting not only her own bat
tle but for the United States and
other grain-producing nations as
well.
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In this she has been joined
by United States Secretary of
Agriculture Orville L. Freeman
who has described Common Mar-i
ket agriculture policies as
reasonable and arbitrary" and
has warned community officials
that trade must be a two-way
street.
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