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John F. Kennedy: “Assuming the accession of the United Kingdom, there will arise across the Atlantic a trading partner behind a single…”

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Assuming the accession of the United Kingdom, there will arise across the Atlantic a trading partner behind a single external tariff similar to ours with an economy which nearly equals our own.
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John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy discusses the implications of the UK's potential accession to the European Common Market.

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