We must choose the open sea!

[Zigenare]

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

Nice one, Sir Winston!

[WTFH]

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

Nice one, Sir Winston!

Misquote, Churchy.

[WTFH]

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed."

15th Feb 1930 written in the Saturday Evening Post

As for this bit:

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

When exactly did he say it?

[DaveB]

He never said it.

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[Whorty]

Nice one, Sir Winston!

Someone needs to research Hansard and confirm what he really said rather than relying on xenophobic lies from the internet

Here's a clue, he supported a United States of Europe

[DaveB]

15th Feb 1930 written in the Saturday Evening Post

As for this bit:


When exactly did he say it?

During a blazing row with De Gaulle in 1943, on the eve of D-Day, to make the point that the UK would always turn to the US and Roosevelt for support in liberating Europe, not De Gaulle and the French.

“We are going to liberate Europe, but it is because the Americans are with us. So get this quite clear. Every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose. Every time I have to choose between you and Roosevelt, I will always choose Roosevelt.”

[original PM]

Someone needs to research Hansard and confirm what he really said rather than relying on xenophobic lies from the internet

Here's a clue, he supported a United States of Europe

But not a European Super State with a centralised dictatorship though.

Not quite the fooking same is it?

[DaveB]

But not a European Super State with a centralised dictatorship though.

Not quite the fooking same is it?

The article in the Saturday Evening Post that the first 4 sentances were taken from was entitled "The United States of Europe"

Winston Churchill - Sat Eve Post 15 Feb 1930.pdf - Google Drive

He also wrote:

“We are bound to further every honest and practical step to which the nations of Europe may make to reduce barriers which divide them and to nourish their common interests and their common welfare.
"We rejoice at every diminution of the internal tariffs and the martial armaments of Europe. We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonality.

[original PM]

The article in the Saturday Evening Post that the first 4 sentances were taken from was entitled "The United States of Europe"

Winston Churchill - Sat Eve Post 15 Feb 1930.pdf - Google Drive

He also wrote:

1930 was a long time ago.

You know before the Germans decide to murder 6 million innocent people because they did not fit the profile.

Before the Spanish civil war

And the greek civil war

And the Italian civil war

In fact it would probably be fair to say that Europe in 1930 was a completely different place than Europe in 1950.

So it would also I imagine be fair to say that people's views and attitudes may also have changed.

[Zigenare]

15th Feb 1930 written in the Saturday Evening Post

As for this bit:


When exactly did he say it?

5th June 1944