ABSTRACT
Churchill's trip to the US in early 1946 was an unusually long one, much of it being for rest and recuperation, but he also had an agenda. Exactly what that agenda was is not immediately clear. One might simply say that it was primarily the delivery of his Iron Curtain speech of 5 March 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The crux of his Fulton speech was security through Anglo-American cooperation, involving: not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our vast but kindred systems of society. However, the continuance of the intimate relationship between our military advisers, leading to common study of potential dangers, to the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges. Churchill's emphasis on the importance of values and common Anglo-American inheritances was something that he so consistently held to that it would be difficult to see it as a confection.
