THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 March 2012—On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech, officially titled “Sinews of Peace,” at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. After being introduced by President Harry Truman, Churchill, the former prime minister of Britain and now the opposition leader, warned of the threat posed by the Soviet Union, a World War II ally of Britain and the United States.
The New York Times reported that “Mr. Churchill painted a dark picture of post-war Europe, on which ‘an iron curtain has descended across the Continent’ from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.”
“He strongly intimated a parallel between the present position of the Soviet Union with that of Germany in 1935,” wrote The Times.
In the 1950s, as prime minister, Churchill called for summits and detente with Russia.
More to the point, Churchill never called for US or Britain to fight Russia - unlike John McCain and his followers on Freerepublic. Churchill never called for war against Russia over Ukraine.
McCainiacs are very ignorant of history and of Churchill
BOOK Winston Churchill’s Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War 1951–1955
Winston Churchill’s Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War 1951–1955
Largely because of his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, Churchill is often remembered as a determined Cold Warrior. Yet, for all his fervent anti-communism, he saw the creation of the Western Alliance as a step not towards war, but towards negotiations with the USSR. This book shows how, as Prime Minister in the 1950s, Churchill hoped for a summit meeting with Soviet leaders, an end to the Cold War, and an era of peaceful scientific advancement by humankind.
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