American doctors attending a medical meeting in Czechoslovakia “constantly looked for that iron curtain or evidence of Russian intervention or influence, but never found it.” A Russian note received in Washington on February 24, 1947, held this arrangement to be “entirely fair.” In Chicago, on February 10, Dulles warned that any appeasement of Russia would bring dire consequences. Echoing Winston Churchill, Dulles was trying to frighten the rest of the world with “the ghost of non-existent Soviet expansion.” On March 6, 1947, President Truman made a speech at Baylor University on foreign economic policy which was a virtual declaration of irreconcilable conflict against both communism and democratic socialism. The Baylor speech was closely studied by every European government as a challenge by the strongest economic unit ever developed on earth, one which had just grown to gargantuan size on government orders.