...distance themselves from Winston when his speech raised a predictable outcry. The most famous phrases were 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the Continent', and 'I do not believe that Soviet Russia desires war. What they desire are the fruits of war and the...

...our house in order before this peril has to be encountered. . . . Beware, I say, time may be short. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. . . . This...

...Churchill, speaking in Fulton, Missouri, warned of the expansionist tendencies of the Soviet Union, saying, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Responding to the growing perception of a Soviet threat, in March 1947, President Truman promulgated...

...medium-sized crowd gathered at Westminster College in the small town of Fulton, Missouri. In it, he declared, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent." Let us take a moment to remember the former Prime Minister's support of a fast Western Allied drive...

...Churchill outlined the framework through which he approached postwar challenges. He let it be known that 'from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the continent' and that communist parties active on both sides of the curtain constituted a 'growing challenge and...

...Curtain" speech. Churchill's soaring rhetoric was combined with somber warnings about World War III. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" and a "police government" is ruling Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wants "the indefinite expansion...

...event, changing the political situation of the world. Churchill spoke calmly, but with conviction. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw,...

...Churchill used the very descriptive phrase that surprised people in the United States and Great Britain: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Before this speech, the US and Britain had heen concerned about their postwar economies and had remained...

...Winston Churchill with reference to Eastern Europe, when he said at Fulton, Missouri, in Mar. 1946: 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' The term was much in use during the Cold War. However, the advent of Gorbachev to power and the revolutionary...

...States and declared that "a shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."7 Also within that year conflicts over the control of Turkey and Iran prompted both superpowers...