• This is a report from a Foreign Office observer in Moscow soon after Churchill's speech.
• The Soviet public got to read the speech in the Soviet newspaper Pravda. About a week later Stalin gave an interview in Pravda responding to the speech.
• It is worth remembering that the United Nations Organisation was very new in 1946. There was still a lot of doubt about whether it would work.
• You may have studied Case Study 1 in Gallery 1. In this you can read about Churchill's involvement in sending British forces to help with the attempt to defeat the Communists in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21.