Loading presentation…
Opening in Keynote for Mac...
Your browser isn’t fully supported.
For the best Keynote for iCloud experience, use a supported browser.
Learn More
Cancel
Continue
Harold Macmillan: “Greeks to Their
Romans”
•
D.R. Thorpe:
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
<
https://play.google.com/
store/books/details?id=lzVgMHMwZtwC
>
•
[Harold] Macmillan dubbed Roosevelt ‘The Emperor of the West’, and
Churchill ‘The Emperor of the East’. When Eisenhower paid court to
Roosevelt, Macmillan said to Bob Murphy, ‘Isn’t he just like a Roman
centurion?’ The classical analogy famously went further. To Dick Crossman,
Director of Psychological Warfare at AFHQ, he said:
•
We, my dear Crossman, are Greeks in this American empire. You will
fi nd the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans – great big
vulgar, bustling people, more vigorous than we are and also more idle,
with more unspoiled virtues, but also more corrupt. We must run
A.F.H.Q. as the Greeks ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius...
•
The source Thorpe gives for this famous quote is the
Sunday Telegraph
_ for
February 9, 1964.
<
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0IhgSjKDwAyUE6DLH-1VzyklA
>
