Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill last night warned the West, against Russia's "aim to rule the world" before a capacity crowd in the Boston Garden. His address was the keynote speech at the MIT mid-century convocation...
Churchill opened his address by tracing the course of world history during the first half of the twentieth century. He pointed to the confidence that marked its opening years, and said that while "on the whole I remain an optimist," mankind's failure to keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved...
...flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide," he continued before turning to the political aspects of his address...
Churchill's address was preceded by short introductory remarks from Karl T. Compton, ex-president of M.I.T., and Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman. The former read a letter from President Truman, who apologized for his absence with the assurance that it was "a matter of necessity, not of choice...
...before the program began officially. Churchill received a minute-long ovation as he walked slowly to the platform and bowed briefly to the audience before taking his seat. He was cheered again as he rose to speak, and was interrupted by applause 19 times during the course of his address. At its conclusion he was cheered for less than a minute...