Imperial Son ‘Churchill and Empire,’ by Lawrence James By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
AUG. 15, 2014 Photo Churchill in 1910. Credit Photograph from Hulton Archive/Getty Images “To paraphrase Winston Churchill,” Ronald Reagan said in his first Inaugural Address, “I did not take the oath I’ve just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.” If it was curious that an American president should cite an English politician, what made it odder was the line he chose to adapt. In November 1942, Churchill had said that “I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” Why would the president of a republic born out of rebellion against that empire want to allude to those words, especially since, at the time Churchill spoke them, the American administration and people had been united in their resolve that, whatever else they were fighting for, it was not to preserve the British Empire? . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/churchill-and-empire-by-lawrence-james.html?emc=edit_bk_20140815&nl=books&nlid=58083535 -- 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 churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
