What were those Dark Ages, those six centuries during which a curtain seemed to descend upon Europe?...A curtain of darkness seemed to have settled upon a world which had once been so shining and varied -Pilgrim's Way, Lord Tweedsmuir (1940)
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lit by the Allied victory...From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.-"Sinews of Peace," speech by Winston Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton Missouri, March 5, 1946.
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lit by the Allied victory...From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.-"Sinews of Peace," speech by Winston Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton Missouri, March 5, 1946.
