At various points in his career, Churchill pursued ideas of greater Anglo-American unity, and in 1951, while en route to the United States, he even drew a symbol for what a proposed joint currency might look like.
We’ve found the item in the archives and are posting it here along with an envelope explaining its provenance. The writing on the envelope is that of Jock Colville, brought back as Winston Churchill’s Principal Private Secretary in 1951.
In his book Footprints in Time (Collins, 1976, p.234) Colville wrote of this voyage:
“On the Atlantic voyage, it was difficult to persuade Churchill to read the array of briefs and memoranda which had been laboriously prepared in Whitehall. When I tried to engage his attention to one or two of the more important, he protested that he was going to America to re-establish relations, not to transact business. A protoplasm, he said, was born sexless. Then it divided into two sexes which, in due course, united again in a different way to their common benefit and gratification. Such, too, should be the story of Great Britain and America and it was not going to be told in a lot of turgid briefs.”
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