...our when noticing the Eastern European dismissal of unfettered free economic markets, put it thusly: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic..."iron curtain" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw,...

...speech became more notable for his classic statement of the beginning of the Cold War as he declared 'from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the Continent,' nothing could mask Mr. Churchill's enthusiasm for the United Nations, which he believed could become...

...problematic. In a memorable speech Churchill delivered in Fulton, Missouri, on May 5, 1946, he warned: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...iron curtain has descended across the continent." The phrase "iron curtain" became the West's way of referring to the nations in the Soviet Bloc, and...

...judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King Metaphor "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the continent. " Winston Churchill Metaphors are much mo tenacious than facts. PERSUADING WITH METAPHORS AND ANALOGIES...

...Curtain" Speech, March 5, 1946; in: Bernstein u. Matusow, The Truman Administration, aaO, S. 215 ff. ,from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the continent." ebd., S. 70. Den vorläufigen Höhepunkt erreichte die Konfrontation, als der amerikanische Militärgouverneur...

...town of Fulton, The March to Moscow • 21 Missouri, and told the crowd at Westminster College that "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...iron curtain has descended across the continent." If the West did not meet the Soviet threat with force, that iron curtain — it was a phrase he first...

...to do." The following March, Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,...an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Beyond that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe . . ."' Vera...

...that the Soviet Union was embarked upon a dangerous course of expansion throughout Eastern Europe: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."25 Since then, a series of hammer blows fell. In 1948 Czechoslovakia succumbed to a Soviet-engineered...

...realized. The Soviets, for their part, were suspicious of the West as well, and had been since 1918, when "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron the US, Britain, and France had intervened . / , , , curtain has descended across to support anti-communist...

...time to gnaw at the edges of border studies itself. III. The histories of the German and PoIish Other "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,...