Churchill's 'Iron Curtain" Speech 60 Years On

It was 60 years ago this week that Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech at tiny Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. As BBC Correspondent William Horsley reminds us, the speech -- one of the most famous and most important of the 20th century -- still has great relevance today:

In an age of great uncertainty [the speech] projected Churchill's iron conviction of purpose.

His core beliefs were in the special bond between America and Britain, the need for the United Nations to be "a force for action and not merely a frothing of words", and the duty of the Western democracies to stand up for freedom and against tyranny.

Sixty years later, there are more democratic governments in the world than ever.

Yet such moral certainty is rare, and the authority with which Churchill's expressed it is surely rarer still.

(Hat tip to Country Bumpkin.)