Very recently this country spent a great deal of blood and treasure rescuing four of 'em from attacks by the other two

in 1967, when old and frail, Attlee was asked to address a group of anti-European Labour backbenchers, and obliged with a characteristically terse speech that captured the sentiments of many of his fellow citizens: '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.'

D. Sandbrook, Never had it so good (2005), 220