Tag #SinewsofPeace75

75 Years Ago: Westminster College President Franc McCluer wrote this letter to Winston Churchill inviting the statesman to deliver the college’s John Findley Green Foundation Lecture in Fulton and St. Louis, Missouri. President Harry Truman wrote a longhand note at the bottom of the letter: This is a wonderful school in my home state. Hope you can do it. I’ll introduce you. Best regards, Harry Truman Churchill would accept and, five months later, would travel to Fulton to deliver his Sinews of Peace address, commonly known as the Iron Curtain speech. #SinewsofPeace75

#OTD 1874 Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the home of his grandfather, the Duke of Marlborough. His mother was American and his father British, making Churchill himself a symbol of the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, a cause the statesman championed throughout his long life. We invite you to take time today to visit our website and discover more about the life and legacy of Winston Churchill.... https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/ Image: Winston Churchill receives an honorary degree from Westminster College on March 5, 1946. #SinewsofPeace75 #specialrelationship

#ICYMI Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator Timothy Riley discusses Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech at the 2018 Symposium Harry S.Truman, Russia and the Cold War. Watch the archived broadcast on C-SPAN History TV #SinewsofPeace75 [Watch Video] https://www.c-span.org/video/

#OTD 1946 Winston Churchill boards the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton along with Clementine, Soctland Yard's Inspector Williams, valet Frank Sawyers, & secretary Jo Sturdee. The journey to Westminster College MO & the Iron Curtain Speech begins. #sinewsofpeace75 #thinkchurchill : 2011.10.1.a-c Winston Churchill to Col. Frank Clarke about his upcoming visit to the US

Painting was a favorite pastime of #Churchill, who, in January 1946, spent much of his first week in the Sunshine State putting oils to canvas. Winston Churchill, View from a Bathing Hut at Miami Surf Club, 1946, oil on canvas (Imperial War Museum & National Trust, Churchill Heritage) #sinewsofpeace75

#otd 1946 Winston Churchill met with the press for the first time since arriving in Miami Beach. In the morning, they talked politics and a potential American loan to the UK, then after lunch, Churchill posed in front of his canvas on the veranda of the Surf Club press photo collection #sinewsofpeace75

#OTD 1946 the Churchills' train arrives in Miami Beach and they settle in with Col. Frank Clarke, who'd had his second story master bedroom repainted turquoise and pink for their visit #sinewsofpeace75

#OTD 1946, 8:30 pm, NYC The Churchills disembark from the Queen Elizabeth, hold a brief but lively press conference at the end of the dock, & board a train for Miami Beach via the Seaboard Coast Line. When asked during the press conference about the socialist program of the Labour Government which won 1945 election, ending Winston Churchill's first run as prime minister he replied, "I never criticize the government of my country when I'm abroad and I rarely leave off crit...icizing them when I'm at home. 2005.02 by Yale Joel, Richard and Barbara Mahoney Collection #sinewsofpeace75

#Churchill's Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain) speech is, in some ways, a response to Stalin's 1946 'election' speech, given #otd at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow: Emphasizing that conflict is the "inevitable result" of world (Western-driven) capitalism, Stalin identifies the capitalist system as the underlying cause of WWI and II and implies future conflicts. He cites Russia's role in the Allied victory and her dramatic industrialization between the wars as testament that the S...oviet social and state systems were not only viable but superior far from a "dangerous experiment" or "house of cards," as the foreign press had originally criticized. In closing, Stalin rallies his audience with calls for continued exponential growth of industrial production and extensive scientific research, potentially hinting at developing atomic weapons. In a sense, Stalin's speech is the first unofficial declaration of the Cold War. #sinewsofpeace75 Read the full, translated speech: http://soviethistory.msu.edu//cold/stalin-election-speech/ "Comrade J V Stalin delivers a speech at a pre-election meeting of voters of the Stalin constituency in Moscow on February 9, 1946 at the Bolshoi Theater," Pravda issue 66 (12634), 7 Mar 1953 (Wikimedia Commons)

#otd 1946 "Churchill was fêted on his last day in the city with a lunch at the Havana Yacht Club. Unfortunately, it appears that the regular fixture there, Ernest Hemingway, was away at the time. The same day, the Ministry of Health Building, which Churchill had admired, received him and he was left alone to paint its magnificent colonial, colonnaded patio." The Churchill party then flew back to the States, landing in Miami at 6 pm. #sinewsofpeace75 Read more about #Churchil...l's 1895 and 1946 Cuba visits in this article by Hal Klepak from The International Churchill Society: https://winstonchurchill.org//grau-san-martin-visit-to-cu/ 1. Ernest Hemingway (white shirt) sitting with friends at the bar at La Florida (Floridita), Havana, Cuba (Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum) 2. Ernest Hemingway sitting on a deck chair with cat, Boise, at his home, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba (Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum) 3. Yacht Club, Marianao Beach, Havana, Cuba (Wikimedia Commons)

#otd 1946 R. Henry Norweb, US Ambassador to Cuba, wrote to President Harry Truman detailing the previous night's dinner conversation with #Churchill. At this time, Churchill was still drafting his Iron Curtain speech but from this letter, it's clear that he had already determined his main points. #sinewsofpeace75 original letter from Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, President's Secretary's Files

#otd 1946 Although adept at radio broadcasts, #Churchill replied to Westminster College MO President McCluer's hopeful inquiry about televising the upcoming Iron Curtain speech with "I deprecate complicating the occasion with technical experiments." Like McCluer, ANCM looks to bring content to the public in new ways and our #sinewsofpeace75 program March 5-6 will be all virtual 1969.63, Churchill-Truman-McCluer Day Papers