When Harry Truman went to Fulton he knew what Churchill intended to say. Whether or not he read the speech, he had been briefed on Churchill's views. Afterwards he could gaze on the magnificent trial balloon and watch the effect as the world, and Russia, reacted.
There was plenty of reaction, most of it bad. A few Congressmen thought the speech "realistic"; the majority were cold, some were "shocked." While the Wall Street Journal thought it brilliant, with a "hard core of indisputable fact," Manhattan's devoutly pro-Soviet PM angrily called it an "ideological declaration of war against Russia."
Other newspapers were somewhere...
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