ABSTRACT

There was no single country or territory of the Commonwealth which did not feel its interests to be threatened to a greater or lesser degree by the prospect of our entry into the Community. The threat, and the anxiety, differed from case to case. Earlier chapters of this Report have described how the main Commonwealth issues were solved. These were the questions of New Zealand, of sugar, of association for independent developing Commonwealth countries and of Part IV association for Commonwealth dependent territories. Canadian and Australian problems were covered to the best of our ability by the tariff quota arrangements and the provisions of paragraph 5 of Protocol No. 16. But a number of separate Commonwealth questions remained, and I will deal with the main ones fairly briefly in this section.