The BBC website has a page on US Senator Cruz (Republican, Texas) and his remarks on President Obama, somehow assimilated to
Chamberlain who is supposed to have declared "Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our
problem."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24300094
In it, Robert Self, one of Chamberlain's most prominent biographers (see review of his Neville Chamberlain : A Biography, 2006 on
http://www.cercles.com/review/r28/self.html), accuses Senator Cruz of showing very little "historical understanding" with "this
derogatory reference" - but I believe that he himself may be misquoting Churchill when he writes 'Churchill is once supposed to
have quipped, "Poor Neville will come badly out of history. I know, I will write that history" '. I thought he meant the history
of the Second World War as a whole when he said "I know, I will write that history". Or am I wrong ?
Thank you in advance for any enlightenment on this.
A.C.
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Reviews Editor of CERCLES
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
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