Many of us know the 1962 quotation from Dean Acheson, the former US Secretary of State, about Britain having lost an empire and not yet found a role. But few are familiar with his full paragraph, which has uncanny echoes today as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
What will Britain’s role be now?
Simon Fraser on how the UK can exert influence outside the EU
The World Today
Published 15 December 2017
Updated 18 November 2020 — 4 minute READ
Image — Dean Acheson, the US Secretary of State, with the French statesman Robert Schuman and Britain’s deputy prime minister Herbert Morrison during postwar talks on the future of Europe
