Andrew ShieldsGrosvenor Square in literature, history, and the Grateful Dead song “Scarlet Begonias”. #111Words #TheGratefulDead #ScarletBegonias #FromTheMarsHotel #GrosvenorSquare #OscarWilde #DorianGray #EisenhowerPlatz #WorldWarTwo #EeroSaarinen #USEmbassyLondon #AntiVietnamWarDemonstrations https://111-words.ghost.io/grosvenor-square-in-literature-history-and-the-grateful-dead-song-scarlet-begonias/
Jonathan EmmesediI hope this statue does not reappear in Grosvenor Square. I say this not merely because I detested the man and his politics, but also because the erection of the statue represented British lickspittle subservience to US conservatism. Reagan had no particular connection with the UK, so no rationale exists for him being glorified in London. Both his and Eisenhower's statue should be offered to the new US embassy.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt statue, on the other hand, should remain. Britons should be perpetually grateful to him, for without the aid to the UK he pushed through we would have been conquered by Nazi Germany. Of course this aid was not an act of pure altruism, but however hard a bargain FDR drove and however much his policy served US interests, his help at a time of peril saved the UK and the wider world from Nazi barbarism.
President Reagan statue : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/president-reagan-statue
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