Iron Cutain speech in 1946....

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March 05, 1946

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, March 5, 1946

* Winston Churchill - Iron Curtain Speech
* Fulton MO Missouri

The front page has a five column headline: "Churchill Urges Military Federation Of Anglo-U. S. Nations to Guard Peace" with subhead and photo. (see) First report coverage on Winston Churchill giving his famous "Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton, Missouri.
Other news of the day. Complete in 14 pages, nice condition.

wikipedia notes: Use of the term "Iron Curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe was not popularized until Churchill used it in his "Sinews of Peace" address March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:

"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, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.”

Category: The 20th Century