YP Letters: What if Churchill had shaped post-war world?
HAS any historian ever considered how different the post-war world would have been if, as expected by the world, Winston Churchill had been re-elected to power instead of being replaced by the nonentity Clement Attlee?
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Hide AdChurchill’s prestige was enormous, eclipsing that of the other world leaders, and would certainly have been sufficient to have ensured an orderly and carefully-considered dismantling of the British Empire – resulting perhaps in a united India, and avoiding the prevalence of beastly dictators in so many African countries.
Israel and the Middle East might have evolved in a more orderly manner and the long-running rivalry between Russia and the West might have been shown to be unnecessary.
One could never do more than speculate, but at least we perhaps ought to consider how Churchill was rewarded for preserving Britain from fascism.