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The Iron Curtain Sculpture Is Unveiled! SUMMER 2011 | Volume 2 | Issue 2 The Magazine of the National Churchill Museum The Iron Curtain Sculpture is Unveiled! Plus: fulminating against fulton by roland quinault & royal wedding celebration photos Board of Governors MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DirectOR Association of Churchill Fellows William H. Tyler Chairman & Senior Fellow Pebble Beach, California Earle H. Harbison, Jr. Greetings from Fulton! St. Louis, Missouri William C. Ives Chapel Hill, North Carolina After an amazingly busy early spring here at America’s Hjalma E. Johnson National Churchill Museum, we have continued in that Dade City, Florida vein with a hectic late spring and early summer! Hardly R. Crosby Kemper, III Kansas City, Missouri had the euphoria surrounding the ‘Churchill Weekend’ Barbara D. Lewington and the associated events with Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the St. Louis, Missouri Richard J. Mahoney British Ambassador, and our Kemper Lecturer, Sir Max St. Louis, Missouri Hastings, died down than we were plunged into yet Jean-Paul Montupet more action. The delayed ‘Iron Curtain’ Sculpture was St. Louis, Missouri William R. Piper unveiled on 13 May to great acclaim. Edwina Sandys, St. Louis, Missouri Churchill’s granddaughter and sculptor of our own Suzanne D. Richardson ‘Breakthrough’ piece, flew in from New York to speak at St. Louis, Missouri Dr. Rob Havers addresses the crowd The Honorable Edwina Sandys, M.B.E. at the dedication ceremony of ‘Iron the dedication ceremony, and nearly 300 people gathered New York, New York Curtain’ Sculpture. in front of the Museum on a beautiful May morning. James M. Schmuck St. Louis, Missouri While the sculpture itself is the focus, its creation and The Lady Soames L.G., D.B.E. mounting have also been the catalyst for a brand new London, U.K. plaza area making the entrance to the museum more Linda Gill Taylor Kansas City, Missouri attractive by far. More pictures of the event can be found Dr. Rob Havers John E. Marshall, Emeritus Executive Director, on pages 12-14 and, of course, on our cover. Fulton, Missouri National Churchill Museum John R. McFarland, Emeritus Before we unveiled the new sculpture, Fulton and the St. Louis, Missouri Harold L. Ogden, Emeritus Mid-Missouri Friends of the Museum were, like much Seal Beach, California of the planet it seems, bewitched by the wedding of Marvin O. Young, Emeritus St. Louis, Missouri Prince William and Kate Middleton. In true Churchillian Churchill Institute & Memorial fashion, the Mid-Missouri Friends decided to celebrate Committee of the Board of Trustees, the occasion and, on the evening of the wedding, held Westminster College Heather A. T. Biehl, Chair a wonderful event that attracted 150 people or more to Acton, Massachusetts the Museum, many wearing hats and their finest Royal Linda Gill Taylor, Co-Vice Chair Kansas City, Missouri Wedding attire. More details and pictures are to be found James M. Schmuck, Co-Vice Chair on pages 15-17. St. Louis, Missouri Ron J. Kostich Upland, California We also bid farewell to Dr. Roland Quinault, who has Jerry N. Middleton been an exemplary visiting Professor of British History St. Louis, Missouri here at Westminster College. His parting shot, a piece C. Robert Monroe Overland Park, Kansas on the contemporary reception afforded to Churchill’s John C. Panettiere ‘Iron Curtain’ address, can be found on pages 6-9. We Eclectic, Alabama Suzanne D. Richardson also welcome the incoming Fulbright Professor, Dr. St. Louis, Missouri Amy Blakeway. A brief synopsis of Amy’s career and Patricia Kopf Sanner achievements can be found on the back cover. Arlington, Virginia Anne E. Schneider Jefferson City, MO I wish you all an enjoyable summer and, as always, I look William H. Tyler forward to seeing you here in Fulton. Pebble Beach, California Ronald D. Winney Edwardsville, Illinois George B. Forsythe, Ph.D. President, Westminster College Robin Havers 2 the | Summer 2011 Churchillian Executive Director Summer 2011 | Volume 2 | Issue 1 Fulminating Against Fulton 4 Contemporary reception afforded to Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ address from Roland Quinault. From the Archives 8 In this issue, Liz Murphy talks about the process and students involved in Archiving Aldermanbury. Educational Programming 10 A quarterly education & public programming update from Mandy Plybon. ‘Iron Curtain’ Sculpture Unveiling 12 A recap of the ‘Iron Curtain’ Sculpture unveiling through wonderful photos. The Royal Wedding Celebration 15 Exciting recap of the Royal Wedding Celebration held at the National Churchill Museum, organized by the Mid-Missouri Friends of the Museum. Good Friends 18 A quarterly message from the Museum’s Director of Special thanks Development, Kit Freudenberg. Ronald Quinault, Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Chair of British History Dak Dillon, Cover & ‘Iron Curtain’ Sculpture Unveiling Photographer Lydia Schuster, Studio Seven - Royal Wedding Celebration Photographer The Honorable Edwina Sandys, M.B.E. Calendar of Events Richard J. Mahoney, Churchill Fellow 20 Find out what great events are happening soon! Dr. Carolyn Perry, Westminster College Kay Jarboe, Westminster College Your distinguished visitors are expected to give their “usual” campaign oratory and/or “super” sales talk for the purpose of “double-crossing” the “American People” and Blackmail them for the Gift-Loan to Great Britain. The above quote comes from a document housed 4 the Churchillian | Summer 2011 in the National Churchill Museum Archives. Written by Dr. Roland Quinault Not all Americans approved of Churchill’s 1946 had originated in the Revolutionary era and then speech at Fulton or of President Truman’s decision to periodically revived whenever differences arose introduce him. The Archives of the Churchill Museum between the two nations. Churchill was derided as include some protest letters that were sent to Frank an ‘old John Bull’ who was ‘full of bull’ - the leader of McClure, President of Westminster College, who an army of ‘modern Redcoats’ intent on once again invited Churchill to speak. Most of those letters were subjecting America to British control. This time, ill-informed diatribes by cranks - or worse – but they however, it was alleged that ‘the British invasion’ contained criticisms that were also voiced by a broader was not military, but cultural and social. One writer cross-section of Americans, both Democrats and complained that there were ‘Englishmen galore on the Republicans. Significantly, several of the protests came radio and in films,’ speaking their ‘hackney’ English, from Chicago – where the large Irish and German along with the 50,000 British brides that the G.I.s population and the Chicago Tribune had for many years brought back with them after the war. expressed anti-British sentiments. Critics of Churchill accused him of being a hypocrite The most common objection to Churchill’s speech was because he had championed liberty for subjugated financial – the fear that its intention was to persuade nations during the Second World War, but had then the United States to provide Britain with a post-war failed to uphold that pledge after the war. loan. That was unpopular because Britain had not yet repaid its $4 billion lend-lease debt to the U.S. and, First they get us to fight in 1946, federal debt accounted for an even larger their war and make us proportion of the national economy than it does today under President Obama. One complainer wrote of believe it’s someone elses’s Britain: ‘First they get us to fight their war and make fault, then they bleed us us believe it’s someone else’s fault, then they bleed taxpayers for all the free us taxpayers for all the free money they can get.’ money they can get. There was also a more general distaste for what was perceived as the shortcomings of the ‘old world.’ Europe was denounced as ‘the debt-maker and In 1941, Churchill had signed, with Roosevelt, the war-maker’ of the world – the cause of two world Atlantic Charter, which asserted the right of peoples wars – and Europeans were advised to migrate to choose their own form of government. In 1945, to North America or other countries that were however, both men had agreed with Stalin, at the Yalta self-sufficient. Conference, that Eastern Europe would be within the Soviet sphere of influence. The Baltic Republics did not In Britain’s case, however, the loan request regain their pre-war independence, but became part re-awakened an atavistic hostility, which of the Soviet Union, while Poland, though nominally www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org 5 independent, came under Communist minority sensitivities. He stressed Britain’s desire to be self- control. The fate of those countries was a burning sufficient; he spoke of the British Commonwealth, issue for their many expatriates who lived in the not just the British Empire, and he memorably U.S. They included millions of Poles and over a drew attention to the lack of liberty and self- million Lithuanians. After Roosevelt’s death in determination in Eastern Europe. April 1945, Churchill became the main Western leader who was criticized by those nationalities that Three weeks after Churchill’s speech, however, regarded themselves as ‘victims of Yalta.’ Churchill, the head of the State Department’s Office of moreover, had opposed Roosevelt’s wish that European Affairs still noted that ‘there is a Britain should grant independence to India at the tendency in this country to blame the British in first opportunity. some way for everything that happens that we don’t like.’ Lord Halifax, the British ambassador to the U.S., did not defend Churchill personally, but he tried to There is a refute the more general anti-British allegations. tendency in this He pointed out that the loan requested by the country to blame British government took the form, not of dollars, the British in but of credits to buy American goods.
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