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." [1001 Days]