Lexington

摘要

Back in 1933, Winston Churchill tried to enliven a dinner party at his country house, Chartwell, with a guessing game. What is your fondest wish? Most of the guests fudged their answers, but the host had no hesitation. "I wish to be prime minister and in close and daily communication by telephone with the president of the United States. There is nothing we could not do if we were together." Thirteen years later, he told an enraptured audience in Fulton, Missouri, that the Americans and the British "must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus, trial by jury and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."