Clement Attlee enjoyed the superiority of a postwar Englishman when he dismissed European unity in 1967 with a contemptuous sniff. "The Common Market. The so-called Common Market of six nations. Know them all well. Very recently, this country spent a great deal of blood and treasure rescuing four of 'em from attacks by the other two." For Germany and Italy, which had suffered under fascist dictatorships, and for France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, which had suffered under fascist occupation, there was nothing in the war years to be superior about. The Common Market promised liberation from a terrible past. And continued to promise it.
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