In March 1946, Winston Churchill told a Missouri
audience, “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.
Today a new iron curtain is descending. It encloses the
small Missouri town where Churchill gave his speech and all the great capitals
of a great nation. Behind the iron curtain lie New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and countless others. It covers a million streets and hundreds of
millions of people. Its shadow passes over stores and factories, homes and
schools. It is not a physical wall. There are no border guards with rifles to
shoot those wanting to leave…..There is too much law being made to count…….That
is the power of the paper wall………..Read More »
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