SIR - Councillor David Chandler is not strictly correct when he says "Churchill was a foremost advocate of European unity" (Worcester News, January 5).
That is cherry-picking of the worst kind and taking the facts completely out of context.
Yes, he said it was "a good idea for Europe" to unite - but we in the UK were certainly not part of it! What he did say on May 11, 1953, was: "We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked but not comprised. We are associated but not absorbed."
He also said: "If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea."
Even Jacques Delors confirmed this, in Le Monde on 3rd May 2000, by saying: "Even that great European, Winston Churchill, envisaged European integration only for the countries of the European continent, not for Britain."
Worcester News readers should be told the whole story and not just given selected bits that might suit Coun Chandler's political doctrine and also misquotes the famous man.
STANLEY PARR, Pershore.
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