CHURCHILL “AT THE WALDORF” 1946

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On Friday, 15 March 1946, Winston Churchill attended a dinner in his honor given by the City of New York at The Waldorf Astoria. Ten days before he had delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri and the reverberations from it were still being felt. “I do not wish to withdraw or modify a single word,” Churchill insisted, after rising to speak at the Waldorf. “…I felt it was necessary for someone in an unofficial position to speak in arresting terms about the present plight of the world.”

This handsome “at the Waldorf” leaflet was distributetd to Waldorf guests that month. The frontis photo is of “The Right Honorable Winston Churchill photographed at the dinner given in his honor by the City of New York in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria.” Its four pages are filled with black & white photographs of recent distinguished celebrity visitors to the hotel, including one of the Churchill family, captioned: “Former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, poses informally with Mrs. Churchill and their daughter, Mrs. Sarah Oliver, in their Towers suite at the Waldorf-Astoria prior to their departure from England.” This, however, was a fabrication. The photo was, in fact, taken in 1939 in a room at Admiralty House, where Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, and his family then lived.

In mint condition.