WINSTON CHURCHILL AND DWIGHT EISENHOWER
\nMarch 8, 1946<\/p>\n
There was a roar of excitement in Richmond as Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister who led Great Britain in World War II, and General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, descended upon the city. Traveling by motorcade through the packed crowd of flashing cameras and eager citizens, Churchill brought the world\u2019s eyes to Richmond.<\/p>\n
Despite the cheers, the visit was all business. Just three days before, Churchill had warned Americans: \u201cFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.\u201d Their mutual wartime ally, the Soviet Union, now threatened Eastern Europe and, in Churchill\u2019s eyes, the very world peace for which the Second World War had been fought. In Richmond, Churchill called for Anglo-American unity in a new global conflict that would become known as the Cold War. <\/p>\n
Churchill party visits Capitol, March 8, 1946, Courtesy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; Winston Churchill with Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson (left) and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in the background (from left), Gov. William M. Tuck, Speaker of the House Thomas B. Stanley and Lt. Gov. Lewis \u201cPat\u201d Collins II, March 8, 1946, Courtesy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"