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General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay had been appointed by Sir Winston Churchill as 1st Secretary General of NATO.
While Secretary General, Ismay is also credited as having been the first person to say that the purpose of NATO was "to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down," a saying that has since become a common way to describe the dynamics of NATO.
What has changed in over one hundred years? Nothing, the British still on a war footing against the old Soviet empire ... colonialism by another name. 😡
Hastings ’Pug' Ismay -- Meet the British General Who Became Churchill's ’Right Hand' in Wartime
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he said: "From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an `iron curtain' has descended across the continent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe."
It was a very big day in the history of Fulton, Missouri when President Truman and Winston Churchill paid their visit. During his address at Westminster College Mr Churchill spoke of the situation in Europe and the "iron curtain" which has descended between the east and west of the continent.
"Fraternal association of the English speaking people." ⁉️ WTF
Churchill urged US to ’wipe out' Moscow with A-bomb | ICIJ |
Public reaction to Churchill's Fulton speech, however, swiftly turned negative. Newspaper editorials condemned his speech as rogue bluster, and columnist Walter Lippmann called Truman's invitation an "almost catastrophic blunder."
The new president soon learned his nation wasn't ready for another war against its recent ally Stalin and his Russian army. Going after the Soviets in peacetime was far different from finishing off Japan in war. Truman "pulled back into his shell, even declared that he had not known in advance what Churchill was going to say," Time magazine reported. Backpedaling away from Churchill's comments, Truman eventually offered to send the battleship Missouri to pick up Stalin so he could come to America and refute the charges.
Winston didn't waver, however, for his true feelings against the Soviets were even stronger than his Fulton rhetoric. Since the 1917 Russian Revolution, he felt Lenin's Bolsheviks were extremists, intent on a dictatorship that did not recognize God , property rights, or human freedom. "The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race," Churchill declared. He'd made similar comments throughout his career.
From the diaries ...
Paul-Henri Spaak Succeeded British Hastings Ismay as SG of NATO
In 1945, former Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak was chosen to chair the first session of the General Assembly of the new United Nations which was held in London.
Paul-Henri Spaak addresses the plenary on 10 January 1946. (UN Photo / Marcel Bolomey)
On 24 January, the General Assembly passed its first resolution, this time in New York City - concerning the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the suppression of weapons of mass destruction.
A long-running supporter of European integration, Spaak had been an early advocate of customs union and had negotiated the Benelux agreement in 1944. He served as the first President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe between 1949 and 1950 and became the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) -- which would later become the European Parliament -- between 1952 and 1954. In 1955, he was appointed to the so-called Spaak Committee studying the possibility of a common market within Europe and played an influential role in preparing the 1957 Treaty of Rome which established the European Economic Community (EEC). He received the Charlemagne Prize the same year. Between 1957 and 1961, he served as the second secretary general of NATO,
Spaak, a convinced supporter of multilateralism, became internationally famous for his support of international cooperation, in which he hoped to include geopolitical enemies of Belgium and NATO such as the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
It is EITHER OR, not AND AND.
Capitalism the road to self-interest, nationalism and fascism as we see develop today.
NWO of Greed and War, Avoid Peace | 22 June 2024 |
Right-wing extremism is so contrary to the principles and founding of the European Union, that we implode within a decade. The East-West divide forces a choice between War and Peace ☮️.
Statement by Mr. Paul-Henri SPAAK after his resignation as President of the Consultative Assembly | 11 Dec. 1951 |
Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen, let me assure you that I have no intention of availing myself of this opportunity to make a speech. In any case, I think this would be quite beyond me this morning. I shall confine myself - with your kind indulgence - to making a few general remarks, which I hope will be brief, in order to explain why I shall vote in favour of the Amendment put forward by Mr Teitgen and Mr de Menthon, in the same way as I have made up my mind to support any Motion which will enable the Council of Europe to emerge from the period of negative policy and stagnation into which it has entered, and in the same spirit and purpose as I should have yesterday voted for the Motion by Mr de Félice, despite the fact that I have myself never been a federalist.
Ladies and Gentlemen, from the Presidential Chair occupied by me until yesterday, I noticed things which often made me very sad. I have been continually surprised at the amount of talent expended in this Assembly in explaining why something should not be done. To-day everyone has his own good reasons why he should not make any more. Some Germans will not support a united Europe until the whole of Germany is united. Some Belgians will do so only if the. United Kingdom joins in. Some Frenchmen are against a unification of Europe if it entails their being left to negotiate direct with the Germans. The British will not form part of a united Europe so long as they have not found a solution acceptable both to themselves and the Commonwealth. Our Scandinavian friends look on at all this in a somewhat disillusioned and disinterested manner, or so it appears.
I am quite convinced that if a quarter of the energy expended in this Assembly in saying "no" were devoted to saying "yes" to something positive when it is forthcoming, we should not find ourselves in the position we are to-day.
(Applause.)
During this last Session I also found out something else of a more serious and distressing nature. Ladies and Gentlemen, I do not wish to hurt anyone's feelings, and I should like to use most parliamentary language, but I have come to the firm conclusion that in this Assembly there are not more than sixty Representatives who really believe in the need for a united Europe. Of course, everyone proclaims that he is a good European, and only yesterday Mr Gordon Waiker, with a certain amount of vexation, again said so, in reply to a speech by Mr Paul Reynaud.
Let me, however, at once say to him: "I am convinced of your complete sincerity, my friend, but what I am equally convinced of is that when you say `I am a good European,' you, evidently, do not mean the same thing as I do when I say it. We just look at things in quite different ways. If it were not somewhat presumptuous on my part to do so, I should even say that our present respective points of view in looking at history are not the same."
It is my impression - I may be exaggerating slightly, but not very much - that a number of our colleagues are wondering whether what we are doing serves any very useful purpose. And I, personally, wonder whether they do not really think: "is it of any great interest?"
Now there, you see, is just where our points of view completely differ. Whereas some of us are scarcely concerned at ail whether the work done here is necessary or useful, others among us consider what we set about doing as something vital and urgently necessary.
I admire those who can remain cairn in the face of the present state of Europe. One could be terribly blunt about that if we were not obliged to be so parliamentary. Nevertheless, just cast your minds back for a moment over recent years and ask yourselves what Europe was like only a matter of fifty years ago. I do not ask you to go back to the days of its former splendour. How can those who, whether they come from Rome, Athens, Paris or London, remember what their countries were like and what their capitals stood for in the world and compare it with the state we are all in to-day, possibly remain so cairn and collected in the fact of events?
The Europe we are speaking of here is a Europe which we have, in the first place, allowed to be rent asunder. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Balkan States and Eastern Germany no longer exist. The Europe we are discussing here is a Europe against which both Asia and Africa are to-day in revolt, and the greatest and most powerful among us, even to-day, is being defied in Iran and Egypt. The Europe we are speaking of to-day is one that for five years has been living in fear of the Russians and on the charity of the Americans.
In the face of ail this we remain impassive, as if history were standing still and as if we had decades at our disposal quietly to change our whole outlook, do away with customs barriers, abandon selfish nationalistic viewpoints, as if we had all Eternity before us.
Ambition to Inflict Strategic Defeat on Russia
West will not manage to defeat Russia, using Kiev as ram — Lavrov | TASS - 29 June 2025 |
"The West has never succeeded in that - they will not work it out this time also," the top Russian diplomat said
CHOLPON-ATA — The collective West seeks after strategically defeating Russia, using the Kiev regime as a ram, but it will not succeed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during talks with Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev.
"We see an unprecedented standoff our country against the collective West that decided again to wage a war against us and inflict a strategic defeat to Russia, essentially using the Nazi regime in Kiev as a ram," Lavrov said. "The West has never succeeded in that - they will not work it out this time also," the top Russian diplomat said.
The West "probably, starts figuring that out," Lavrov noted. Considering the current international situation, Russian Foreign Minister pointed to particular importance of close ties with Kyrgyzstan in all the areas.
