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Controversial last minute change Winston Churchill made to his famous VE Day speech
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mirror.co.ukResearchers have found that veteran Tory leader Winston Churchill almost used the phrase “United States of Europe” in a speech just after the Second World War.
If Britain’s war-time Prime Minister had used the phrase it would have shocked his right wing fans.But Churchill decided against using the phrase at the last moment.
On March 5th 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, before a huge crowd which included the US president, Harry Truman, Britain’s wartime leader issued a famous description of the political division that was opening across Europe between the Soviet dominated Communist east and the western democracies. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,” Churchill declared, “an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” And
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