June 18, 2008

Churchill was out of power at the time of his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, after the Labour Party’s landslide victories in the July 1945 election. Himself reelected, Churchill was a potent leader of the opposition in through 1951, when the Conservatives again won a majority and he became prime minister again in 1955. Frightened by the horrific implications of the hydrogen bomb, Churchill campaigned for peace through strength, urging talks with Soviet leaders, a quest in which he was not successful.ย 

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