ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some ways in which race and racism were implicated in the Fulton address. Historians have long pointed out that Winston Churchill's Fulton address was initially met with a mixture of cheers and boos around the world. Churchill's notion the Anglo-American 'special relationship' and 'fraternal association' constituted the ultimate sinew of world peace smacked of racial supremacism. The chapter considers the Fulton address itself, focusing on Churchill's references to the English-speaking peoplehood, fraternity and unity. It examines that Churchill's appeal for the Anglo-American special relationship was a racialized political utopia – a cross between re-imagining a Greater British past and a programmatic statement on, to borrow one of Paul Robeson's phrases, 'Anglo-Saxon world domination' for an era marked by communism, decolonization and the United Nations Organization (UNO). The textual, lexical and syntactical structures of the Fulton speech have been closely analysed by historians and communication scholars.
