Brandt Outlines Proposals For 'Club' of All Nations

Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of Berlin, last night called for a universal "club" of all nations anxious to advance world trade and raise world standards of living.

He also urged the admission of other countries, "especially England" to the Common Market, and recommended expansion of the European Economic Community "to the limit of present day possibilities."

"It would be disastrous if England did not join the Community," Brandt declared, "for France and West Germany alone are not Europe." The mayor also warned that the problems of the British Commonwealth must be solved, so those nations "can maintain their stabilizing influence in world politics."

In his revolutionary proposal for a "club" of nations, Brandt suggested that the group should offer its members mutual aid and the scaling down of customs barriers. He indicated that the Common Market might in time be expanded into an intercontinental body.

Brandt asserted that the Common Market has shown the new "dynamism of the West," but warned that the Market must not be open to Soviet charges of "economic colonialism in disguise." He urged that the West give serious thought to Soviet and neutralist proposals for an international trade conference, and "at least concider the agenda of such a meeting."

"The proposal of an open club could prove immensely attractive to the developing countries," Brandt said, and could give the West the initiative at an International trade conference. He predicted that the forces of economic well-being let in motion by such a club would be the most effective way to "compel the communists to accommodate themselves to an entirely new meaning of co-existence."

Brandt asserted that President Kennedy's July 4th speech calling for greater cooperation between Europe and the United State, "will go down in history as a policy statement comparable to the Monroe Doctrine."

But "we must continually search for ways of enabling many more nations to join the Atlantic partnership," Brandt declared. He suggested that membership in the "club" should even be available to Communist countries who accept the conditions of memberships.

The Mayor pointed out that humanity is in the midst of a world-wide social explosion and that "the very existence of the West" depends on the future prosperity of the deprived countries.

Brandt warned, however, that a lasting peace is necessary for the West to remain economically supreme. "To maintain the peace," he asserted, "we must maintain the military equilibrium," and Brandt chided the allies of the United States for not showing greater "spirit of confident cooperation" and "readiness to assume an adequate burden."

The first part of Brandt's two lecture series will be rebroadcast by WGBH-TV (channel 2) tonight at 8 p.m. The second half will be televised next Thursday night, Oct. 11, also at 8 p.m.

Berlin's mayor stated openly that be is "in favor of keeping the atomic club closed," but warned emphatically that the day is near when most nations that want nuclear weapons can have them. He urged that the West "not cease to confront the Soviet Union" with serious proposals on disarmament.

During a brief question period, Brandt attacked the concept of four power control in West Berlin. With the Soviet division of the City, Brandt declared, four power responsibility for West Berlin now rests with the three Western nations.