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Winston Churchill - Fulton, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 50.993 W 091° 57.284
15S E 590703 N 4300637
Statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill located at the Churchill Memorial at Westminister College in Fulton, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM83B3
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2010
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The statue is of Winston Churchill standing wearing an overcoat. He is holding cane in his right hand.
Inscribed on the front of the base is:
CHURCHILL
On the rear:
IN WAR-RESOLUTION
IN DEFEAT-DEFIANCE
IN VICTORY-MAGNANIMITY
IN PEACE-GOODWILL
From the Smithsonian website:
"This sculpture of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clark R. Gamble of St. Louis. Mr. Gamble was a member of the Board of Trustees of Westminister College, and of the Board of Governors of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States. It was at Westminister College in 1946 that Churchill delivered his famous "Sinews of Peace" speech, coining the phrase "iron curtain" to refer to the Soviet intentions in Europe.
The sculpture was cast in London and unveiled at the American Embassy in London in January 1970, with Churchill's widow, Lady Spencer-Churchill in attendance. The artist, a Czechoslovakian native who first saw Churchill in an army camp in England in 1940, stated that he "wanted to sculpt him as I saw him that day," including "standing four-square in the face of adversity with an expression of cheerful determination."