And here is the full story on Churchill.
https://www.ft.com/content/3d6bbabc-...9-1365ce54b926
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As Churchill urged a Franco-German partnership to lead his vision of a new Europe, he declared that Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, along with the US and USSR, should be “friends and sponsors” of the project. He did not talk of the UK becoming a member itself. “We are with Europe, but not of it,” he wrote in an earlier essay. “We are linked but not comprised.” That ambiguity has haunted Britain’s relationship with its continental neighbours ever since, culminating in the UK referendum vote on June 23 for Brexit.
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Also, the founding time of post-war Europe was a very different time than it is today, the economic and especially the fincial precondtions could not be compared. The money was a different one than there is today, and I do not just talk about a currency's simple name. Continental self-sustaining corruption and ursurping of powers, mass-migration and global drowning in hopeless amounts of debts
were not even imaginable.
It is highly questionably that Churchill would repeat his Zurich speech again in that exact manner like he delivered it in 46.And many deformations and perversions there are today in the EU policy forming and demand for power that also should not be taken for granted to have found his approval. He was no fool denying reality.