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#KingCharlesReport: Winston Churchill and FDR discussed moving the US into the Commonwealth. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

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#KingCharlesReport: Winston Churchill and FDR discussed moving the US into the Commonwealth. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

1922 PRINCE OF WALES

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0:56.2

and the King is due in Australia for a visit sometime this fall, a very important gathering

1:02.3

of the heads of the Commonwealth.

1:05.1

And there are important events at the Royals.

1:07.2

I want to mention something I've come across recently that I did not know an advanced conversation between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during the war years.

1:18.0

There are frequent meetings 41, 42, 43, even in a meeting in 44.

1:25.6

And that was that Churchill lobbied FDR

1:30.9

to combine the US and the UK and the Commonwealth into one great big governance

1:38.3

entity with the king at its center and FDR was not averse to the idea, we believe, according to the reports.

1:48.0

And Churchill, if he'd won the election in 45, instead what happened as Atley and Labor took over, and if FTR had lived another year or two,

1:58.4

they would have continued that conversation after the fall of Germany, after they won the war, a combined governance

2:06.3

which is not alien even today. But I do regret it, Gregory, because we could use a king and Britain could use what should

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