First Iron Curtain Speech
First Iron Curtain Speech. Not at first perhaps but as time passed and as Soviet behavior in Iran, Czechoslovakia, Berlin, et cetera grew worse, people looked back and said that Churchill had been right. This article on the Iron Curtain speech is from James Humes's book Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman.
Though he was not the first to use the phrase "iron curtain", this speech brought the phrase into common usage and is thought by some to mark the beginning of the Cold War. A compilation of portions of Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. was played. Winston Churchill in Downing Street. (U.
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This article on the Iron Curtain speech is from James Humes's book Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman. This little-known aspect of the speech illustrates not only Churchill's collegiality, but his efforts to foster unity Gathering Storms. The Iron Curtain was a name, coined by Winston Churchill, for the dividing line between Western democracies and the Soviet regimes of eastern Europe.