Winston Churchill: 'The Sinews Of Peace'

On March 5, 1946, in a speech before Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the great English statesman and World War II (1939-1945) leader Winston Churchill intoned his famous warning: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” He coined the phrase iron curtain, still used today, to refer to the tightly controlled border in Europe that separated Western democracies from the Eastern and Central states under the influence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). To prevent future wars, Churchill called for the establishment of both a strong alliance between Western nations and a “good understanding” with the USSR.