Fulton, Missouri
Westminster
College
Winston Churchill Memorial and Library
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| Origin - 11th or 12th century A.D. The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, was first built near the ruins of the northwest fort of the Roman city of Londinium, close to the site of the palace the served the Saxon kings until 1061. The earliest historical evidence id found int a survey of London churches dated 1181; however, the church may have originated a century earlier as the chapel of the king's alderman appointed to govern th area. "Aldermanbury" probably means "the fortified residence of the alderman." At its inception and until the Protestant Reformation, the church was Roman Catholic. |
| The 27 steps leading to the belfry contain 24 stone steps, which date back to the original 1181 Church of St. Mary. They were the original stairs that led from the church down to the crypts below, but were placed in the bell tower during the reconstruction |
| The John Findley Green Foundation was established in 1936 to provide
for annual lectures designed to promote understanding of economic and
social problems of international concern.
"... the United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. With primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.... It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war.... "Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organization will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples. This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States of America.... "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trleste 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 those famous cities and the populations around them, lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form of another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow." Winston S. Churchill, 1946 |
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