When the Iron Curtain came down

Seventy years after his speech on the Cold War, Churchill’s words still linger writes Geoffrey Roberts.

Winston Churchill was justly famed for his wartime oratory.

But it is his peacetime warning in March 1946 that Europe had been divided by an “iron curtain” that continues to reverberate to this day: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.