SIR - Further to your published letter from David Chandler, Labour city councillor, the way he has worded his claim of Churchill's advocacy of European unity' is unfortunately typical of the way in which such lovers of the neo-politburo in Brussels like to distort reality.
Churchill was certainly in favour of European unity, possibly even something like what has become the EU, but for him Europe started on the other side of the Channel.
He was adamantly opposed to direct participation by Britain in whatever the European countries came up with to ensure that they stopped attacking one another.
Perhaps the present Winston Churchill could be prevailed upon to provide a definitive statement of his grandfather's views.
PHIL BARTON, Berkshire.
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