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. Essays on Strategy - Page 263edited by - 1996 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geoffrey Best - 2006 - 388 pages
...introduced him to the awestruck throng at Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946.27 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' That 'iron curtain' has since then figured in every book, speech and essay about the world after the... | |
 | John Ayto - 2006 - 257 pages
...silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies. 1946 Winston Churchill: From Stettin, in the Baltic, to Trieste, in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. 1953 Encounter: If they live behind the Iron Curtain they can do none of these things — for, while... | |
 | the late Abraham Pais - 2006 - 400 pages
...the Soviet Union. As such the speech marks the onset of the Cold War. A few lines from this address: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ... In a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...continent." In a famous 1946 speech at Fulton, Missouri, Churchill said of the emerging political map, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the continent." That sentence thrust the term "iron curtain" into public discourse. It did not originate with Churchill,... | |
 | Brenda Haugen - 2006 - 120 pages
...speech. In it, he talked about the danger the Soviet Union posed to freedom and world peace. He said: 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. The Communist... | |
 | Kathleen Havens Gezzi - 2006 - 629 pages
...entire world in Fulton Missouri. His speech there would mark the onset of the cold war. In it he warned, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind the line lie all the ancient capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw,... | |
 | Ross Mackenzie - 2006 - 228 pages
...US -Soviet relations for over a generation, he grimly summarized the political situation in Europe: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."1 The alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States and its allies during World... | |
 | Christine Bragg - 2005 - 196 pages
...immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytising tendencies . . . From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across Europe. Behind that line all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe lie in... | |
 | Michael Burgan - 2008 - 100 pages
...Westminster College in Missouri, Churchill gave one of the most famous speeches of the Cold War. He said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...Curtain has descended across the continent." Churchill was referring to the control the Soviet Union held over Eastern Europe, which cut it off from the freedom... | |
 | Richard S. Tedlow - 2007 - 612 pages
...Grove, Denise Amantea, Judith Estrin, and the author, February 10, 2006, Menlo Park, California. 72. "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 Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,... | |
| |