[A-List] Iraq & geopolitics, by Henry C K Liu (2)

[Henry C.K. Liu]

Thanks for the info.  You should write a letter to Asia Times and let 
all its reader know that interesting fact.

Can you post the relevant section from Goebels' speech?

Thanks,

Henry C.K. Liu

Douglas Chalmers wrote:

> Great articles by Henry. One point however, Churchill didn't actually 
> invent the concept of the Iron Curtain, he lifted the phrase intact 
> from a broadcast speech by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebels a year 
> earlier.  Churchill tried to deny this, but eventually had to concede 
> it when it was raised in the House of Commons by then Communist MP 
> William Gallacher.
>
> Douglas
>
> On 7 Sep 2004, at 05:49, Michael Keaney wrote:
>
>> Having been rejected by voters at home even before World War II 
>> completely
>> ended in the Far East part of the British Empire, Churchill, out of 
>> office
>> at home, worked on the US by inventing the concept of an Iron Curtain 
>> in his
>> famous speech on March 5, 1946 in little-known Westminster College in 
>> Fulton
>> Missouri, president Harry Truman's home state, and convinced an 
>> insecure and
>> paranoid Truman to launch the Cold War.
>>
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