Fulton Speech

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The "Fulton Speech" (also known as the "Iron Curtain" speech or by its title "The Sinews of Peace") was a 46-minute lecture delivered by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, United States, to an audience of 1,500 listeners. It has been considered by some as signalling the beginning of the Cold War. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Churchill was not the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time; after the defeat of the Conservative Party in the July 5, 1945, election, he was the Leader of the Opposition and was in the U.S. not on an official visit but as a private citizen on vacation.

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