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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 22, 1961
Page
1
UK Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys will arrive in Canberra on July 7 to start discussions with Australia on joining the European Common Market. He travels from New Zealand and will later meet Canada, as one of three senior UK ministers shaping Commonwealth talks next month.
Australia weighs Britain's move toward the European Common Market. McEwen says talks in Canberra will shape Australia’s stance on joining or negotiating terms. He warns that European access to UK markets could threaten Australia’s wheat, butter, grains, meat and other exports if duties or restrictions apply.
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Fleming warned against Britain's European Common Market entry and any Canadian move to bloc trading or tariff walls. He said Canada aims to preserve favourable terms with Britain and the Common Market for political and economic reasons.
The Vulcan bomber landed at Richmond near Sydney after a 12 000 mile non stop flight from Yorkshire. Squadron Leader M G Beavis said the crew stayed awake the entire trip despite fatigue. Refuelling was completed mid air over Malta and the Indian Ocean with a second Vulcan on standby in Yorkshire.
Mr Gale cited an independent survey of 61 grocery items showing Canberra prices cheaper than Goulburn Cooma Yass and Albury and only slightly dearer than Sydney. He contested Mrs Dalgarno's claim that Canberra food prices were the highest in Australia noting many Sydney comparisons used weekend specials. Retailers say they would welcome a cost of living inquiry in Canberra.
Canadian Press calls the move the most sensational item in Mr Fleming's budget aimed at a fourth consecutive deficit with no tax rise. The government would use exchange funds to neutralise foreign capital and push the dollar down to a significant discount versus the U S dollar, after the currency traded near parity and briefly as high as 1.06 dollars in recent years.
Frank Costello, famed Czar of American underworld gambling, was released from federal prison but returned to jail within three hours. Now 70, he faced a 30 day contempt of court sentence for an April 1957 assassination attempt after serving 3.5 years for evading 28000 dollars in income taxes. He was moved from the Federal House of Detention to Rikers Island to finish the contempt term.
Adolf Eichmann admitted at his trial that gas vans were used to exterminate Jews in Poland during the last war. He stated his office drew up transport charts and that his department coordinated with others handling emigration and related matters. He acknowledged reporting illegal deportations to the Foreign Ministry and denied involvement in broader seizures or resettlement.
The Committee for Non Violent Action says the Soviet Peace Committee assured permission for a Peace March from San Francisco to Moscow. Nineteen US walkers and seven Europeans plan a protest in Red Square in Moscow this October against nuclear weapons, with demonstrations allowed in Red Square.
London reports plans for a world land speed record with the £1,500,000 jet car Blue Bird were abandoned. Donald Campbell's ill health forced rest for six weeks and recuperation elsewhere on the Continent, leaving friends and associates unable to reach him.
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