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5. THE GENERAL ATTITUDE TAKCH BY THE COMMISSION WAS THAT THE LINES ON
WHICH OUR THOUGHTS WERE DEVELOPING WERE NOT FAR REMOVED FROM THEIRS.
WHAT WE HAD IN MIND TO PROPOSE WOULD BE REGARDED BY SEVERAL MEMBER
STATES (PARTICULARLY THE FRENCH AND THE ITALIANS) AS TOU AMBITIOUS,
HENCE THEY DOUBTED WHETHER WE WOULD SECURE ALL OUR OBJECTIVES. BUT
THEY WERE IN SYMPATHY WITH OUR AIM OF THE RADICAL LIBERALISATION OF
THE SYSTEM. THEY WOULD DO WHAT THEY COULD TO HELP WHEN THE NECESS-
ARY WORKING PRODUCEDURES WERE SET UP AFTER THE LUXEMBOURG STATEMENT
ON JUNE 4, AND THEY EXPRESSED THEMSELVES AS PARTICULARLY GRATEFUL
FOR HAVING HAD THIS INDICATION OF OUR VIEWS NOW IN ORDER THAT THEY
COULD BEAR THEM IN MIND IN PUTTING FORWARD THEIR OWN PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCHEME FOR 1975.
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