Why was the iron curtain created
"It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future"
– Winston Churchill, "The Sinews of Peace" ('Iron Curtain' Speech).
On March 5, 1946, the presence of Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman turned a college gymnasium in a small Midwestern town into a world stage as Churchill delivered his most famous post- World War II address — "The Sinews of Peace."
That Churchill and Truman would travel to Fulton, Missouri, is a story of a college president with the boldness to ask for the seemingly impossible; of a Westminster College alumnus with access to the President of the United States; of a President of the United States with the willingness to endorse the invitation; and of a recently defeated British Prime Minister with the shrewdness to recognize an opportunity.
It is a story of coincidence and a moment boldly grasped — a combination Churchill capitalized on