h/t Instapundit
...We were coyly told that the little island of Ventotene off Naples was where, in 1941, a prisoner of Mussolini’s had written the visionary manifesto that looked forward to building, after the war, a "United States of Europe". What somehow got omitted was that Altiero Spinelli was a Communist (the Today programme merely described him on air as a "Fascist prisoner", although, lest this be misunderstood, that was edited out of their online report).
We were not told that Spinelli’s Ventotene Manifesto proposed that his future government of Europe should be quietly assembled by its supporters over many years; and that only when all its pieces were in place would those supporters summon a convention to draw up a "Constitution for Europe", which would finally reveal to the European people just what they had been up to. |