At 5 o'clock one morning last week, Common Market Commission President Walter Hallstein, unshaven and wearily ebullient, emerged from a meeting in Brussels to announce "the most important step in the history of the building of the community." With only a few loose ends left lying around, the Common Market had finally finished the work of creating a unified farm economy for its six member nations.
The meeting not only settled the biggest outstanding problem among the Six, but it also removed the most important obstacle to the significant Kennedy Round talks at Geneva, which are supposed to negotiate worldwide...
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