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To: LindyBill who wrote (36605)	3/27/2004 10:14:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Excellent speech, but do you suppose Churchill said "raft of the Medusa" rather than "wrath of the Medusa"? Painting by Gericault, of the aftermath of the shipwreck of The Medusa, some of whose crew survived on a raft. Those who were dead or dying had to be jettisoned in order for the rest to survive. ciaonet.org I rather think Churchill was scare-mongering about half of Britain's population starving to death if the Germans took over (The difficulty about submission-I state it calmly-the difficulty is that we have already in this island the population of a first class power, and on our new scale of life as a small state, we could not feed more than perhaps half of those who live here now), especially given the enormous advances which were being made in agricultural productivity at that time, but maybe he believe it. He never was terribly good at economics. As for the threat of the Nazis -- yes, he was right. It's so hard from this end of the century to comprehend why he wasn't listened to.