In a Geneva conference room borrowed from the World Meteorological Organization, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association met last week to revive a marriage that they would much rather have seen dissolved. Until Charles de Gaulle's rejection of Britain's bid for Common Market membership, most of its EFTA partners (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal) had also banked on joining the Six. Instead, as they ruefully surveyed the damage, the Outer Seven seemed farther out than ever.
Accepting the fact, EFTAwhich was glued together in a defensive reaction to the Common Market in 1960decided last week to speed...
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