7. Compared with France, Germany, and Italy, the protest movements of the late 1960s -- the soixante-huitards, on both the left and right -- did not have the same pervasive political and cultural impact in the UK. (There are a few reasons for this, but most of them can be boiled down to the fact that Prague is a lot closer to Paris than London.)
8. Much as I hate to bring the 'special relationship' into the picture, it made a significant contribution to the postwar differences between the UK and continential Europe, particularly regarding nuclear deterrence issues.
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7. Compared with France, Germany, and Italy, the protest movements of the late 1960s -- the soixante-huitards, on both the left and right -- did not have the same pervasive political and cultural impact in the UK. (There are a few reasons for this, but most of them can be boiled down to the fact that Prague is a lot closer to Paris than London.)
8. Much as I hate to bring the 'special relationship' into the picture, it made a significant contribution to the postwar differences between the UK and continential Europe, particularly regarding nuclear deterrence issues.