{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

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Such a vision may seem unrealistic – but so, a century ago, might a European Union or Community, especially with Britain as a member. One thing that European politics today makes clear is that the present Community in Western Europe, and its planned development, are wholly without meaning except in the context of the Soviet Union and the United States of America, and would almost certainly not exist without those two powers. To many even now it seems that the European Community can only be justified as a step towards some wider grouping, in which it may itself (or may not) remain an integral and integrated part.

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