Heseltine (I am no fan of his) was seven years old in 1940. Cita Stelzer -----Original Message----- From: 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: "Alone was never Churchill’s hope or wish"
Dear All, Interesting reference to Churchill and June 1940 by the former Conservative minister Michael Heseltine : As I told marchers at last Saturday’s demonstration in London, I dismiss with contempt the image of us as an island wrapped in a union jack, glorying in the famous phrase that captured, for so many, Winston Churchill’s spirit of defiance in 1940: “Very well, alone”. I was there. I saw our army evacuated, our cities bombed, our convoys sunk. Churchill did everything in his power to end this isolation. Alone was never Churchill’s hope or wish: it was his fear. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/25/theresa-may-leader-name-only-britain-brexit With all best wishes, Antoine CAPET, FRHistS Professor emeritus 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 ========================================== --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/BYAPR10MB34636235CAEB57E086C84E16A21E0%40BYAPR10MB3463.namprd10.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
