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The Over-Skeptics: With the Europeans, a little patience, a little craft.(US-Europe relations)

National Review

| June 17, 2002 | O'SULLIVAN, JOHN | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

An early revue sketch, circa 1960, by the late Peter Cook had his famous crank, E. L. Whisty, sending prescient warning letters to various world leaders -- but always a little late in the day. "What did I tell Winston in 1940?" he would ask his long-suffering wife. "Watch the Germans, I said. Keep your eye on that Hitler. A slippery customer if ever I saw one. Never got a reply, of course."

In the 2002 version of this sketch, I get to play Churchill. As the resident Euro-skeptic, who has been warning since 1989 of the rise of a rival European superpower, I find myself bombarded these days with philippics from television talk shows, radio phone-ins, op-eds, e-mail, ...

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