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“The Iron Curtain” — Illingworth, 1946

Drawn four days after the Fulton speech, before the phrase had a picture. One of 41 originals catalogued here, scanned at 300 dpi from the National Library of Wales holding.

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Punch cover, 3 February 1954

Cover, Punch, 3 February 1954. Grayscale, 300 dpi, 2480 × 1654. Credit Punch archive — rights record.

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