14 JUNE 2003, Page 39

Winston's offer to France

From Mrs Laura Garratt Sir: Lord Deramore (Letters, 7 June) says in criticising John Major that we must be thankful that he was not prime minister in 1940. I seem to recall that the then prime minister, Winston Churchill, offered joint nationhood to France. Without a referendum, too?

Laura Garratt Uxbridge, Middlesex