PrintJune 4, 2010
Churchill's Bad Idea
"We must recreate the European family ... a United States of Europe." That's the way former Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it in September 1946, at the University of Zurich. He had just recently been ousted by an election in Britain. War-weary and broke, the English people -- including millions of British "Tommies," voting from their far-flung battlefields -- had trounced Churchill's Conservative Party. In on a flood tide came Labour -- then unapologetically socialist. (In recent weeks, we saw the defeat in Britain of Tony Blair's thirteen-year misguided experiment known as "New Labour," essentially a socialist wolf in democratic sheep's clothing.)Churchill in late 1946 was still wincing from the bad press he had received for his "Iron Curtain" March speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He was desperate to shed the "warmonger" label that the left was forever throwing at him. So he gave a "Big Idea" speech...(Read Full Article)
