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Iron Curtain

Churchill popularized this image of Europe's political divide in his March 1946 speech. Newspaper pages from 1946 to 1963 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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16848 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (8279 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1946-01-18, page 10

    … as are willing to break confidences can bring them before the people. Thus, the "iron curtain” which hides Europe east of the Elbe River is a curtain only before the eyes of …

  2. Evening Star — 1946-02-07, page 27

    … Yds. Orig. 98c 36-inch Cur tain Material 59c a yd. 2 Orig. 2.98 Heavy Hammered Iron Curtain Rods, complete with rings --1.99 30 Orig. 79e "Karith" an All Purpose Cleaner for …

  3. The Washington Daily News — 1946-02-23, page 10

    … country and the military areas where we operate, and then stand behind Russia’s iron curtain and not see what goes on in their country, or their military areas? The recent …

  4. Evening Star — 1946-03-06, page 5

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … Republican. of wyoming said he believes that until such time as Russia rolls up the iron curtain" close cooperation among the United States. Britain and other members of the United …

  5. Evening Star — 1946-03-06, page 9

    … accord ance with our charter. That is an open course of policy. In front of the iron curtain which lies across Europe are other causes for anxiety. In Italy the Com munist …

  6. The Washington Daily News — 1946-03-06, page 29

    … LVROM Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,” I said Mr. Churchill, “an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Behind that curtain there is no more freedom …

  7. Evening Star — 1946-03-07, page 10

    … Accountancy 13th ond r NA. 1748 Benton Reveals Plans Of U. S. to Penetrate Soviet 'Iron Curtain' fly the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Mar. 7.—Assist ant Secretary of State William …

    … to penetrate what Winston Churchill referred to in his Missouri speech as the “iron curtain” of Russia, j ‘‘We hope to find some holes in jthe iron curtain. We plan to send five American information officers 1 to our Embassy at Moscow. …

  8. Evening Star — 1946-03-07, page 12

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … standing, he said, may common ground be found for peace. Russia is responsible for the iron curtain" to which Mr.. Churchill alluded, which has been drawn across the Euro pean continent …

  9. The Washington Daily News — 1946-03-13, page 25

    … ourselves in the place of the Russians. Let us get behind what has been called “the iron curtain” and look out upon the rest of the world. What would we see? First, we would see …

  10. Evening Star — 1946-03-14, page 10

    … alteration of the existing territorial status in Eu rope are driven away by Moscow’s iron curtain over the press in her own coun try and over the press of the Balkan areas where …

    … Government should make public all that it knows about what is occurring behind the “iron curtain" in Europe, should tell the people how Americans have been treated in the Balkans …

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