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Is England Still Influencing America? (1990-05-22)

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Not as many fireworks as one might have expected from these two friendly antagonists--both guests being Britons who have spent much of their working lives in the United States--but an amusing look at the present state of the "special relationship." CH: "Why can't I go into a supermarket without seeing a picture of Princess Diana, whom I left England to get away from? ... If I go back to England, what do I get? McDonald's hamburgers and American nuclear bases." ... JO: "The reason why the Americans always wanted the British in the European Community was because they would represent [the Americans'] thought, the ideas of free trade and free markets, which would mean that the Community would never be closed to American goods and American capital."

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Southern Educational Communications Association

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Princess Diana, Great Britain, United States, Special Relationship, European Community, Free trade, Free markets, International relations, British-American relations, Cultural influence, Globalization, Stanford University

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