Dear Editor,
Further to Bert Weenink’s letter on ‘Lewis and Europe’ (August en), readers might like to know Churchill’s view of Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
In his biography of Churchill, Roy Jenkins, a former President of the European Commission, concluded that the evidence is generally against Churchill’s commitment to full British participation in the formation of a United States of Europe. In Churchill’s speech in Zürich on 19 September 1946, he envisaged a United States of Europe with France and Germany taking the lead together, while Great Britain, the British Commonwealth, the United States and, if possible, Russia, should be friends and sponsors of the new Europe.
