Ce vendredi 24 janvier est parue dans le quotidien La Libre en p.33 ma 2° chronique sur Winston Churchill, en ce 60° jour anniversaire de son décès.
Pour la lire, cliquez sur: « L’héritage fragilisé de Winston Churchill ».
Merci à La Libre de m’offrir cet espace d’expression.
Eric,
Yes, the world has moved on since you paid tribute to Churchill on the 50th anniversary of his death, now ten years ago.
And it is perhaps a not entirely vain exercise to ask oneself what he would have made of it, if he were alive today.
Would he, like I do, see similarities with the Weimar Republic, or Mussolini’s March on Rome?
I was mocked, in 2016, for making such comparisons on this very blog.
Yet today, eight years later, events both in America and Europe have gone way beyond what I imagined, let alone predicted.
So what would he have said?
The words he used the day following his defeat against Clement Attlee at the ballot box never fail to bring tears to my eyes: his chauffeur driving him to Buckingham Palace asked him how he felt about those crowds cheering him on and yet rejected him as their next Prime Minister…
» They have been through so much! »
Those words speak not only of the love he felt for his people, but of the very essence of democracy.
That very essence is what is under threat today.