【正文】 that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage is the message of the british and american peoples to us preach what we practicelet us practice what we i have now stated the two great dangers which menace the home of the people, war and tyranny, i have not yet spoken of poverty and privation which are in many cases the prevailing if the dangers of war and tyranny are removed, there is no doubt that science and cooperation can bring in the next few years, certainly in the next few decades, to the world, newly taught in the sharpening school of war, an expansion of mat。s iron curtain speech》winston churchill presented his sinews of peace,，at westminster college in fulton, missouri on march 5, mccluer, ladies and gentlemen, and last, but certainly not least, the president of the united states of america:i am very glad indeed to e to westminster college this afternoon, and i am plimented that you should give me a degree from an institution whose reputation has been so solidly name “westminster” somehow or other seems familiar to feel as if i have heard of it now that i e to think of it, it was at westminster that i received a very large part of my education in politics, dialectic, rhetoric, and one or two other fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindred is also an honor, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps almost unique, for a private visitor to be introduced to an academic audience by the president of the united his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilitiesunsought but not recoiled fromthe president has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here today and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries president has told you that it is his wish, as i am sure it is yours, that i should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling shall certainly avail myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions i may have cherished in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest me however make it clear that i have no official mission or status of any kind, and that i speak only for is nothing here but what you can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength i have that what has gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of and gentlemen, the united states stands at this time at the pinnacle of world is a solemn moment for the american with primacy in power is also joined an aweinspiring accountability to the you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of is here and now, clear and shining for both our reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the is necessary that the constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall rule and guide the conduct of the englishspeaking peoples in peace as they did in must, and i believe we shall, prove ourselves equal to this severe mccluer, when american military men approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words “overall strategic concept”.there is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of then is the overall strategic concept which we should inscribe today? it is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the here i speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wageearner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up the fear of the lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded form two gaunt marauders, war and al know the frightful disturbance in which the ordinary family is plunged when the curse of war swoops down upon the breadwinner and those for whom he works and awful ruin of europe, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of asia glares us in the the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty states dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot them is all distorted, all is broken, all is even ground to i stand here this quiet afternoon i shudder to visualize what is actually happening to millions now and what is going to happen in this period when famine stalks the can pute what has been called “the unestimated sum of human pain”.our supreme task and duty is to guard the homes of the mon people from the horrors and miseries of another are all agreed on american military colleagues, after having proclaimed their “overall strategic concept” and puted available resources, always proceed to the next stepnamely, the again there is widespread world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing , the successor of the league of nations, with the decisive addition of the united states and all that that means, is already at must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a tower of we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for selfpreservation we m