[lit-ideas] Re: the standard for higher standards
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:48:59 -0800
Eric wrote
It's like asking why, since Churchill said "we will fight them on the
beaches..." you fought them in Cannes.
The analogy escapes me. The context was one in which a German invasion
of the British Isles could not yet be ruled out (June, 1940). '_If_
they come, we will fight them on the beaches, etc.' Otherwise...
'We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on
the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and
growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the
cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the
landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we
shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which
I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were
subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and
guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in
God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps
forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.'
Robert Paul
offering no insight
from south of Reed College
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