I would like to add one reaction to that just sent by Jamie Lara Bronstein
<disraeli@leland.Stanford.EDU>. In the review, it is written that Disraeli
and Churchill equally left no important heritage as statesman. To a
Frenchman whose parents grew up through the German occupation in families
that listened to 'Radio Londres' in those darksome years, the fact that
Churchill was there to lead the UK and commonwealth against virtually the
whole world, before the US woke up, is a feat of great statesmanship; this
omission is not just short-sightedness. I was never a sympathiser of
conservative ideas, but no matter what were Ch's ideas, he did what he did,
and his heaviest cross happened to be the Croix de Lorraine, as he said,
and many people of all political horizons do remember him for that, on this
side of the Channel; 50 years after the end of the war, some people who
pretend to historical wisdom have obviously forgotten a few points that are
worth remembering.
Sorry to sound so sententious, but that's that...
Luc Borot
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