Outside, the sun shone on resplendent Dutch tulips. In The Hague's 18th Century Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall), Britain's Winston Churchill, the greatest of living Europeans and perhaps the greatest of living men, stood forth, pink and pleased.
To the Congress of Europe, as it called itself, some 600 delegates had thronged. Among them were hundreds of parliamentarians and a few ex-premiers (Churchill himself, France's Paul Reynaud and Paul Ramadier), but none was present in any official capacity and none traveled on government funds. There were exiles from Spain and from the French zone...
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