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Uncertainty Shrouds The Commonwealth AM HARVEY LONDON CmUncertainty shrouds the future as the Corn monwealth heads into 1962 Any club that has long list of members clamoring for ad missionwould seem to have cause or sdfmnmtulation but Europes Boom Flaiiens Out LONDON CF Europes boom appeared to be flattening out as the nations struggling tor the economic integration of the old continent headed into the new year The pace of cxpansionrfingged In most of the burgeoning six nation European Economic Com munity as wet drew to close Britain continued to grapple with the problem of jolting its economy out at stagnation This followed the governments deci sion last July to slam the brakes on the nations biggest postwar nding spree plCrance and ltaly proved the exceptions to the general trend in the western half of the contin ent in both countries expansion of production and exports con tinucd at healthy pace The lull paradoxically has not altered the look of prosper Ity visible in most cities Em ployment incomes expenditures and personal consumption are at peak levels in practically all countries SEES NEW GROWTH Economists conclude that be cause of this the slackening pace in some of the Continental countries may he only breather before another round oi expansion The executive commission of the community formed by France Germany Italy and the Benelux countries feels the re duction in the tempo of expan sion is attributable only to very small extent to slower growth of demand Nonetheless tendencies in this direction made themselves felt in particular branchesoi more or less importance accord ing to country the commission said in its latest study Physical limitations were by far the most important factor tn this hesitant advance the more acute shortages of man power and the full use already being made of available capac ity in certain member coun tries snowmen UP Despite the slowdown produc tion in the six nations is ex pected to be up by at least six per cent for 1961 over 1960 Dur ing the two previous years the yeartoyear rate of growth was roughly eight per cent Thedontinental countries are lookin to im raved economic condl car in United States and Canada and to an increase In private consumption within tb community to maintain overail demand for their pro ducts during the coming year The expansion of production in West Germany and The Nether lands will be handicapped by la bor shortages and by the fact that practically all factories are operating at nearcapacity in France Italy and Belgium production and exports contin ued to grow although the expan own in Belgium was described as only on modest scale SPENDING MORE The current trends on the eco nomic scene have been accom panied by general increase in the money people have spent Rising wages and shorter work weeks were the rule rather than the exception on the Continent This is sharp contrast to developments in Britain Last July Chancellor of the Exche quer Selwyn Lloyd launched an austerity drive to deal with the nahons economic crisis This program included an attempt to enforce wage freeze and the imposition of sales taxes to re duce consumption at home The aim broadly was to make British exports more competi tivem world markets and to grand greater inducement to seek markets for goods abroad The National Institute of Eco nomic and Social Research an independent study group said in Its latest report the July mea sures were followed by halt to the increase in the gross na tional product TREND CONTINUES The provisional trade figures for November showed exports still did not expand appreciably Industrial production dipped and unemployment and vacancy fig ures show that the demsndfor labor has been falling since May The current conditions have prompted some observers to question whether Britain is in tit state to join the Common Market No one would want to give quick reply said one econo mist writrng in the National Provincial Bank Review For if this country cannot hope to live with its Continental neighbors without hiding behind protective blast wall it will he equally unable to maintain Its standard of living and its oasltion in the world without the aroposed merger with Europe if we are not strong enough tor one road we are going to he too feeble for the other what needs to be done to ensure suc less is the some in hothcaselfl the new year finds anxious ques tions being asked about the long term prospects of on associa tion whose makeup is changing fest The hope that the ol Com monwealth based on Britain Canada Australia New Zeaiaod and South Africa could forge new links with emerging new members in Africa and Asia sub fered its first major setback MnrclvlS 1961 On that day Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd mse at conference at Commonwealth prime ministers in Londons Lancaster House to announce that he was withdrawing South Africas application to remain in the Commonwealth after May 31 when it became republic Delegates sensed the tragedy ol the moment South Africas membership dated from 1910 and there was shared cultural heritage with Britain stretching back 150 years ATTACK RACE POLICY Prime lilinlstcr Dielenbaker of Canada played an important role at the conference joining with the prime ministers ot In dia Ghana Malaya Nigeria and Pakistan in seeking to convince Dr Verwoerd that the Airilt kaner governments promlsing racial policies could not be reconciled with the min ciples of multi racial Com monwealth Conference sources said South Africa could have remained in the association if Verwoerd had made the slightest concession to majority opinion So utb Africas withdrawal transformed what was largely an old boys cluhinto an a550 ciatino mainly composed of new members who have yet to es tablish new formulator grouping whose cohesiveness has always been based on in tnngibles As the Union bowed out Cy prus came in Some observers saw the Com monwealth seriously weakened as force in the world They argued that newer members tending toward neutrality in the cold war will reiuse to stand up and be counted GAIN SELFRULE South Africas withdrawal was not the only disappointment for Gamble with Zanzibar moved smoothly toward the same anl But there wer strains in the case of Uganda which hopes to attain complete freedom in October I952 The cherished dream ot fed eration linking the islands in the Caribbean suffered reverse in September when Jamaica richest of the sunshine states decided to remain aloof from the projected federation Talks early in 1962 are planned with the hope of luring Jamaica back into the fold New constitutional talks in Kenya where suspicion clouds relations between white and black are expected In February in the Oentml African fedora tion comprising the two Rho desias and Nyasatand tension remained high with the British government seeking to steer be tween the determination of fed eral premier Sir Roy Velenslry to preserve white rule for the time being and the demands at Northern Rhodesias Africans tor immediate 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