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...specter is haunting conservatives -- the specter of the end of Communism. Our nightmare, our adversary, our dark doppelganger for the past 40 years seems to be fading away. From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain is buckling. Will conservatism buckle with...
...Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
...almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...
...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...