According to The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/you-are-in-for-a-disappointment-angela-merkel-tells-eurosceptic-tories-hoping-for-fundamental-eu-reform-in-speech-to-parliament-9158076.html
the German Chancellor quoted Churchill during her visit to London earlier this week : “Standstill may quickly turn into setback. Or to use a famous quotation of Winston Churchill, ‘To be perfect is to change often’.” Is that an attested* or an apocryphal quotation? I suppose one can count on the German Foreign Ministry to have checked beforehand, but one never knows . . . Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS Head of British Studies University of Rouen 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan France [email protected] 'Britain since 1914' Section Editor Royal Historical Society Bibliography Reviews Editor of CERCLES http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html * If yes - where and when? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
