Letter: The nations of Europe can't survive alone

Sir: Professor Bush's assertion that the Euro-sceptics "are Churchill's true inheritors" (Letters, 21 September) is as unequivocally wrong as John Redwood's claim that Churchill wished only to belong to a Union of the English-Speaking Peoples.

Both choose to ignore his dramatic offer to France in 1940 that "there shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union". (See The Community of Europe by DW Urwin, Longman 1991). The offer was not just based on the rhetoric of wartime but backed with detailed study of "economic ... political and military co-operation".

Later, some of those involved in the study of a Franco-British Union were instrumental in developing the supranational institutions that today make up the European Union.

CLINTON G ASHILL

Swansea