John Stanaway makes several factual errors (Opinion, June 23). Sir Winston Churchill never used the expression "hate filled bigots".
Chamberlain and Halifax's mistake was hoping a policy of appeasement would stop Hitler's plan for European domination.
They realised this policy had failed on the day war broke out, with the attack on Poland, not after the Battle of Britain.
Churchill did speak of a United States of Europe as a way of preventing future European wars but he did not advocate Britain being a part of it.
He favoured a union of English speaking nations. Churchill was fiercely patriotic and the idea of seeing this country submerged into some sort of undemocratic European superstate would have been an anathema to him.
-A.J. Nunn, Pipers Close, Hove
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