YP Letters: Why it's folly to describe EU as foundation of world peace

From: Les Arnott, Athelstan Road, Sheffield.
Graves at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, during a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of Passchendaele.Graves at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, during a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of Passchendaele.
Graves at Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, during a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of Passchendaele.

GERALD Hodgson’s letter (The Yorkshire Post, August 3) contains several serious non sequiturs. How on earth can being part of an imperialistic, dictatorial structure like the EU be a foundation for peace?

Does he not have a sense of history?

The wars caused by the break-up of empires throughout centuries have been simply horrendous. To imply mildly that there are merely ‘shortcomings’ in the EU is blinkered thinking of the most naive sort.

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Incidentally, one of my sons ended going to war in Afghanistan because of the misdeeds of a certain arch-europhile Prime Minister.

From: Arthur Quarmby, Mill Moor Road, Meltham.

GERALD Hodgson credits the EU with creating peace in Europe. That is one way of looking at things, but there is an alternative point of view; that Germany has realised that its German Empire might more readily be achieved by peaceful means.

In 1870 the newly-united German States attacked and defeated France and announced the German Empire of Europe from the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. That did not last and this led to both WW1 and WW2.

On each occasion, Germany was seeking control of the whole of Europe. Now that Germany has got its European Empire it no longer needs to go to war; not until its expands into the Urals (its stated intention) which will lead to war with Russia.

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From: MK O’Sullivan, Victoria Street, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.

RE events to mark the centenary of Passchendaele. If the commemorations ensured one certainty, it is Remainers repeating their mantra that closer and closer integration must come.

Remainers have told us that being in the EU or EEC kept the peace in Europe for decades, and here was I thinking it was the US nuclear umbrella keeping the Russians at bay.

From: J Hutchinson, Kirkbymoorside, York.

GREAT Britain and its people have stood with strength and determination against adversity for centuries.

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If there was ever a time for our leaders not to kowtow to either Europe or the Remain brigade, this is it.

By positive thinking, this country will come through these negotiations even stronger if Ministers stay strong and do not allow the pessimists to cloud their judgement.