Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"It was important for the United States and Great Britain to maintain a 'special relationship,' working together for a 'grand pacification' of Europe, a comment across which an 'Iron Curtain' had descended. . . . The United States and Britain must remain united and strong and uphold the Charter of United Nations. . . . Relations between the West and the Soviet Union were chilly, but Churchill's speech may well have hastened the onset of the Cold War." [Furtado: 1001 Days]