On the Scene: In Churchill’s Footsteps

Fulton, Mo.

“LIFE is good,” sagely commented the conductor, as I leaned back in the cushy splendor of my 1940s Union Pacific parlor car. I was one of several hundred passengers on the special train journey from St. Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri, following the route that Winston Churchill and President Truman had taken fifty years ago to Westminster College in the small town of Fulton. There Churchill had denounced the “iron curtain” that our wartime ally, the Soviet Union, had drawn down across Eastern Europe, and there he had proclaimed Western resistance against Communist expansion.

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Spencer Warren

Fulton, Mo.

“LIFE is good,” sagely commented the conductor, as I leaned back in the cushy splendor of my 1940s Union Pacific parlor car. I was one of several hundred passengers on the special train journey from St. Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri, following the route that Winston Churchill and President Truman had taken fifty years ago to Westminster College in the small town of Fulton. There Churchill had denounced the “iron curtain” that our wartime ally, the Soviet Union, had drawn down across Eastern Europe, and there he had proclaimed Western resistance against Communist expansion.