Under an English Heaven Quotes

“After a summer as jam-packed with incident as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the fall and winter of 1967 passed with placid serenity on the island of Anguilla, as free from action as a Saul Bellow novel.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven

“Where you see a jester a tool is not far off. —Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla

“Get money by fair means if you can; if not, get money. —Horace, Epistles”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla

“By this time, however, Jamaica was pretty much on Anguilla’s side. The chief Jamaican delegate suggested maybe Anguilla did have the unilateral right to secede after all. He compared it to Jamaica’s own decision in 1961 to secede from the West Indies Federation, which had also been done in conjunction with a referendum.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla

“In his as yet unpublished book Anguilla: Island in Revolt, British journalist Colin Rickards mentions this incident and adds, “At noon the following”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla

“Ronald Webster gives an impression”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla

“a cartoon showing John Foster Dulles on the toilet, with the caption: “The only man in Washington who knows what he is doing.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Under an English Heaven: The Remarkable True Story of the 1969 British Invasion of Anguilla