Robert Schuman insisted that Winston Churchill’s first great postwar speech on Europe was not given in Zurich, Switzerland but in Metz, France on Bastille Day 1946. Schuman should know. He was at Churchill’s side as he delivered it to a huge cheering crowd in the capital city of Schuman’s native Lorraine. … » read more
Posted by David Heilbron Price
, 14 July 1946, Bastille, Brexit, Churchill, de Gaulle, democracy, Europe, Germany, League of Nations, Metz, peace, Schuman, UK, unity, war, World War, Zurich |