04-27-2009, 05:22 AM
ham Wrote:Well...
Nobody probably told him after 1946 the party line in the 'great nation' had changed...maybe he was stuck to Churchill initiating a toast to Stalin hailing him as "the world's greatest man" and to the USSR as great, proud war ally "just like America".
Churchill - March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:
“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, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
Did Churchill ever praise Stalin? I guess so. Roosevelt licked his boots.