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Why did Churchill want to give Magna Carta away?

Government papers reveal that Winston Churchill was part of a secret plot to give an original copy of Magna Carta to the Americans, in return for their support in the Second World War. It was described as "the only real adequate gesture which is in our power to make in return for the means to preserve our country"

First broadcast on Today, 11 March 2015.

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