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From Stettin in the Baltic
to Trieste in the Adriatic
an iron curtain has descended across the Continent
Behind that line
lie all the capitals of the ancient states
of Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia
all these famous cities
and the populations around them
lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere
and all are subject in one form or another
not only to Soviet influence
but to a very high
and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow
There never was a war in history
than the one which has just desolated
such great areas of the globe
It could have been prevented in my belief
without the firing of a single shot
and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored today
but no one would listen
and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool
We surely, ladies and gentlemen
I put it to you, surely
we must not let it happen again