It’s now over 70 years since British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his Australian counterpart John Curtin of his wish to see a united western Europe, of which Britain would be a member.
The allies had fought their way up the southern Italian peninsula but the Normandy landing was still a month away, Hitler still controlled Europe from the Pyrenees to the Ukraine, and England was still an armed camp. Churchill had been both First Lord of the Admiralty and an officer on the Western Front during World War One, he had warned of Germany’s rearmament in the 1930s, and when …read more
