
Churchill Red Herrings: On a Federal Europe and “Keep England White”
“It is only when plans for uniting Europe take a federal form that we ourselves cannot take part, because we cannot subordinate ourselves or the control of British policy to federal authorities.” This quote is a red herring —not Churchill.
Hoist on my own petard! Alan Ingram, a kind reader, has helped me correct several attributions (four of them mine) of this quote to Churchill. The remark, excluding Britain from a federal Europe, belongs to his then-foreign secretary, Anthony Eden. I plead…
Guilty with an explanation:My error and others’ occurred by misreading successive quotes in John Charmley’s Churchill’s Grand Alliance (1995).…