TY - GEN T1 - Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech fifty years later A2 - Muller, James W., 1953- LA - English PP - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press YR - 1999 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm49414788 AB - "The "Iron Curtain" speech defined postwar relations with the Soviet Union for citizens of Western democracies. Although it initially provoked intense controversy in the United States and Britain, criticism soon gave way to wide public agreement to oppose Soviet imperialism."--Jacket AB - "Opening with the full text of the address Churchill delivered in Fulton and concluding with Margaret Thatcher's fiftieth-anniversary address surveying the challenges facing Western democracies in this post-cold war climate, the book brings together essays that reflect on the past fifty years, recognizing Churchill's speech as a carefully conceived herald of the cold war for the Western democracies AB - These powerful essays offer a fresh appreciation of the speech's political, historical, diplomatic, and rhetorical significance."--Jacket OP - 180 CN - D843 .C5295 1999eb SN - 0826261221 SN - 9780826261229 SN - 058538195X SN - 9780585381954 SN - 0826212476 SN - 9780826212474 KW - Churchill, Winston, : 1874-1965. : Sinews of peace. KW - Sinews of peace (Churchill, Winston) KW - Churchill, Winston, : 1874-1965. : Sinews of peace KW - Churchill, Winston, : 1874-1965 KW - World politics : 1945-1989. KW - Politique mondiale : 1945-1989. KW - HISTORY : Modern. KW - World politics KW - Koude Oorlog. KW - Redes. KW - World politics : 1945- KW - 1945-1989 ER -