I'm still reading Never Despair Winston S. Churchill 1945-1965 by Martin Gilbert. It is a bible-sized book, albeit the print is slightly bigger, and it will take me a while yet. Recently I've come across an interesting chapter. This section of interesting stuff starts on Page 619. Interesting to me, and those Brits and others on the EU side of the Brexit-argument, I've found more compelling evidence to answer the question: " Would Winston Churchill have been in favour of Britain being in the EU?" . Of course, I believe the answer (certainly after the War) was that he would have been in favour. Ike Eisenhower made a speech at the English Speaking Union Dinner on July 3, 1951. Churchill was there. Churchill didn't actually hear the speech well enough at the time, but read it's transcript the following day. He was ecstatic when he did. Eisenhower and Churchill The relevant text, of the above mentioned book, is as follows; ...
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