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TALK of dictatorship from Brussels was rubbish, Bob Beckham, president of the Freight Transport Association, said in Glasgow on Wednesday. As a result of UK pressure a tidal wave which would benefit all who operated or used transport in Britain was now sweeping through EEC Transport Policy.
The next task was to persuade the Community that the idea of common rules for domestic as opposed to international transport movements was totally unrealistic.
Transport, he said, was not an independent creature to be shunted this way and that according to the moods or dogma of politicians or even in response to the acceptable ideology of a common market.
The future of a dynamic Europe lay not in imprisoning history, geography and tradition within a colourless standardised cage but rather in releasing the native flair of each race and country so that It could capitalise upon its own atributes.