The Fulton speech on European unity and American involvement

Churchill calls for a European settlement that does not permanently exclude any nation. He recalls the United States entering two European wars only after extensive destruction and argues for deliberate cooperation within the United Nations framework. A strong France is part of his vision of European recovery. Italy's future remains uncertain in his account, and he argues that Italian Communists face a political difficulty because they must support Tito's claims to former Italian territory at the head of the Adriatic. The reading then presents Churchill's warning about Communist parties acting under direction from Moscow. He excepts the British Commonwealth and the United States from his warning of a growing Communist threat to Christian civilisation, describing communism there as still in its infancy. Those descriptions belong to the political argument of the speech.