CHURCHILL SAYS AN IRON CURTAIN HAS DESCENDED ACROSS EUROPE
Fulton, Missouri (JFK+50) On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, gave his famous "Iron Curtain Speech" here in Fulton, Missouri. Mr. Churchill, a guest of President Harry S Truman, spoke at Westminster College*.
He presented the following warning to the western world...
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain** has descended across the continent."
Earlier Mr. Churchill talked about the special relationship between his country and the United States. He also said that in dealing with the Soviets there is...
"nothing which they admire so much as strength and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness."
The Iron Curtain speech is considered one of the first references of the existence of a "cold war" between East and West.
*Westminster College was founded in 1851. It is a private liberal arts college located in Fulton, MO. It is also home of the National Churchill Museum.
**Iron Curtain describes the physical boundary dividing the Soviet Bloc of eastern Europe and free western Europe from the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War (1945-1991).
Churchill Speaks
Westminster College
Fulton, Missouri
