Word: stettin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winston Churchill journeyed to the small Missouri town of Fulton to accept an honorary degree from little-known Westminster College. His acceptance speech made Fulton a historic site. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." To combat the forces that lurked behind it, he proposed a "fraternal association" between the U.S. and Great Britain...
...Nazi customs official from Stettin, Pannenberg, 38, did his doctoral studies in theology at the University of Heidelberg; he acknowledges a major intellectual debt to Heidelberg's Old Testament Scholar Gerhard von Rad. At the university, Pannenberg became the leader of a group of young thinkers who met for late-night discussions of theology, and who in 1961 formulated their principles in a joint volume of essays called Revelation as History. Although not widely known in the U.S., Pannenberg has lectured at the University of Chicago, Harvard and Claremont, and three of his major works are in the process...
...Schleswig-Holstein resigned in protest; the Socialist chairman of the Expellees' Federation cried out against the offense to Heimatsrecht. Swastikas sprouted on walls in normally progressive Berlin. Evangelical Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover received scores of hate letters, and Berlin Editorialist Karl Silex (himself a native of Stettin, now Szczecin), who welcomed the memorandum as a departure from "taboos and legal claims," found the front door of his house in flames-the work of Hetmat-righteous zealots...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...
...challenge that ranks as one of his greatest feats. At Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., Churchill warned the Western world in his "Sinews of Peace" speech that the time had come to close ranks once more against a threat as sinister as any the century had seen: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...