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were in touch with the Community. He thought that the

Six were becoming increasingly convinced that the

Community must be outward looking. This tendency would

be intensified with the entry of the United Kingdom an

Scandanavia. The performance of the Community in

the negotiations over the Kennedy Round had been

encouraging. The external tariff level of the Communi

was in fact already on average lower than that of the

United Kingdom. For the rest, we should know more

after the meeting of 21 June.

EAST WEST RELATIONS

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Sir Alec Douglas-Home said that the difficulties over Berlin had held up progress on other more importa fronts. All that was needed was the agreement of the Russians to better conditions for access to Berlin.

The NATO response to Russian approaches over more important matters was that we shaldfirst

smaller difficultý.

remove the

There could be no discussion

of mutual and balanced force reductions until the

problem of Berlin had been solved. Of course, important negotiations could continue for example between the US and the Soviet Union over higher. nuclear matters.

/ He thought

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