Archive for October, 2009

Iron Curtains, Rhetoric & Reality

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

“The United Nations Organization must immediately be equipped with an international armed force… a force for action, a true Temple of Peace.”
 

“We are engaged in the process of creating a European unit in the world organization of the United Nations… one of several continental units, the pillars of the world instrument for maintaining security.” [1]
 

When those now worrying about “Social Security,” State – managed health ‘insurance,’ and dogmas like global warming or “a new world money, a contrived currency” to advance “a collectivist world order” were young, they read about the bold leadership and heartening rhetoric of Winston Churchill, elder Statesman of the Allied powers and champion of “the fraternal association of English-speaking peoples” [2].  An eminent example of his tutelary ‘prophetic’ status was his celebrated speech about Russia’s clamping an “iron curtain…upon Europe from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic.” Amid his soaring rhetoric, including poignant mention of “mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamt,” and ample self-praise, the august Churchill cannily presented a goal little discussed in mass media or typical school texts. (more…)