The Lectureship

The John Findley Green Foundation lecture was established in 1936 as a memorial to John Findley Green, an attorney in St. Louis who graduated from Westminster in 1884. This endowed fund makes it possible to present lectures designed to promote understanding of economic and social problems of international concern. It further provides that "the speaker shall be a person of international reputation."

Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" ('Iron Curtain' Speech) was the 7th Green Foundation Lecture.

The Lectures

	Year	Speaker	Title	Publications and Recordings
1	1937	Oscar D. Skelton, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs for Dominion of Canada	Some Gains and Losses of the Present Generation	University of Chicago Press, 1937
2	1938	John Langdon-Davies, London	Conflict Between Democracy and Fascism in Europe	unpublished
3	1939	Francis B. Sayre, former High Commissioner to the Philippines	The Protection of American Export Trade	University of Chicago Press, 1939
4	1940	T.V. Smith, Member of Congress and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago	The Legislative Way of Life	University of Chicago Press, 1940
5	1941	Count Carlo Sforza, of Italy, former Ambassador to China, to Turkey, and to France, and subsequently Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs	The Totalitarian War and After	University of Chicago Press, 1941 and George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, 1942
6	1942	Samuel Guy Inman, Lecturer on Latin American Relations at University of Pennsylvania and Yale University	Pan American Postwar Program	unpublished
7	1946	The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain	The Sinews of Peace	full text | published by Westminster College and broadcast over worldwide radio chains
8	1949	Reinhold Niebuhr, Professor of Applied Christian Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, NY	This Nation Under God	published as part of The Irony of American History, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952
9	1949	J. C. Penney, merchant	The Spiritual Basis for Improving Human Relations	published privately
10	1950	Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of Harvard Law School	Justice According to Law	Yale University Press, 1951
11	1953	Charles H. Malik, Ambassador of Lebanon	The Crisis of Reason	unpublished
12	1954	Harry S. Truman , former President of the United States	What Hysteria Does to Us and Presidential Papers, Their Importance as Historical Documents
13	1954	Guy E. Snavely, former Executive Secretary of the Association of American Colleges	College and Church in America	published as part of The Church and the Four-Year College, Harpers, 1955
14	1956	Stanley N. Barnes, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit	Government and Big Business	unpublished
15	1957	William Yandell Elliott, Williams Professor of Government at Harvard University	The Uses and Limits of the United Nations in Relation to American Foreign Policy and Meeting the Political Strategy and Tactics of the Soviet and Chinese Communist Bloc in the Post-Stalin Period	part included in The Idea of Colonialism, Praeger [for the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania], Strausz-Hupe and Hazard, ed., 1957
16	1958	Dr. Edward McCrady, Vice Chancellor and President of the University of the South	Freedom and Causality	unpublished
17	1960	Quintin Hogg, The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Hailsham, Q.C., Lord Privy Seal. London, England	The Iron Curtain, Fifteen Years After	published in pamphlet form by Westminster College, 1960
18	1961	Dr. Lin Yutang, noted Chinese author, New York City	Chinese Humanism and the Modern World and Some Good Uses of Our Bad Instincts	World Publishing Company, 1962
19	1962	Henry R. Luce, Editor in Chief of Time, Life, et al, New York City	The Title Deeds of Freedom	Westminster Report, 1962
20	1962	Frederick R. Kappel, Chairman of the Board of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, New York City	From the World of College to the World of Work	privately published by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in pamphlet form
21	1963	M. Max Kohnstamm, Vice President of Action Committee for the United States of Europe, Brussels, Belgium	The European Community and Its Role in the World	University of Missouri Press, 1964
22	1964	Sir George Paget Thomson, Nobel Prize winning physicist for work in electrons, past President British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, England	Science: The Great Adventure	privately published by Westminster College in booklet form
23	1965	Andre Philip, former Minister of Finance in France and leading international trade expert, St. Cloud, France	Counsel from an Ally	University of Missouri Press, 1966
24	1965	Joseph C. Wilson, President of Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York	The Conscience of Business	privately published
25	1966	Kim Jong Pil, Chairman, Democratic Republic Party of Korea, Seoul, Korea	Dawn Over Asia: The Path to Freedom	Vital Speeches xxxiii, November 1966
26	1967	Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States, Washington, D.C.	The Iron Curtain and The Open Door	St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 6 March 1967
27	1968	Dr. Franc L. McCluer, former President of Westminster College, President Emeritus of Lindenwood College	The Continuing Struggle for Freedom	The Westminster College Magazine, Winter 1969
28	1968	The Rt. Hon. The Lord Snow, author, scientist, teacher, London, England	The State of Siege	Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968
29	1971	The Rt. Hon. The Lord Harlech, former British Ambassador to the United States and television executive in Great Britain	The Third Gaunt Marauder
30	1972	The Rt. Hon. Robert H. Finch, Counselor to the President. Former Lieutenant Governor of California and Secretary of H.E.W.	Selecting the President
31	1972	General Avraham Yoffee, Director, Nature Reserves Authority. General Israeli Army	Will We Succeed in Saving Ourselves?
32	1974	J. William Fulbright, Senator in the United States Congress and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations	The Clear and Present Danger
33	1976	Clarence M. Kelley, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Perspectives of Power
34	1977	Ardeshir Zahedi, Ambassador from Iran
35	1977	Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States
36	1980	Griffin B. Bell, former Attorney General of the United States	The Sinews of Peace Revisited
37	1980	Clare Boothe Luce, former American Ambassador to Italy and member of the U.S. House of Representatives	The Ghost at Westminster
38	1982	Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of Great Britain	The Changing Face of Power
39	1983	Caspar Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense	What We Face
40	1983	William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence Agency
41	1986	George H.W. Bush, Vice President of the United States	Churchill's Vision and America's Future
42	1987	Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher and Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago	The Greatness and Fragility of Political Language
43	1987	The Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Graham Leonard, Bishop of London	The Tyranny of Subjectivism
44	1990	Claiborne Pell, Senator in the United States Congress and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations	Iron Curtain to Common European House: America's Rose in the Old Order and the New
45	1992	Peter H. Raven, Biologist, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
46	1992	Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the U.S.S.R.	The River of Time and the Imperative of Action	full text and video
47	1993	The Hon. Robert S. Strauss, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
48	1996	The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Margaret Thatcher, L.G., O.M., F.R.S., former Prime Minister of Great Britain	New Threats for Old	full text and video
49	1998	The Hon. Lech Walesa, former President of Poland	The Impact of NATO on Global Security
50	2001	Barry McCaffrey, former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
51	2002	Tom DeLay, House Majority Whip and Representative, 22nd District, Texas	The Bonds of Freedom	full text
52	2003	Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and former Presidential candidate	World Trade and Globalization	full text
53	2010	James A. Baker III, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and of State	Case for Pragmatic Idealism	full text and video
54	2011	William H. Roedy, former CEO of MTV International	Global Leadership in a Changing Age	full video
55	2014	Bob Geldof, rock musician and global humanitarian
56	2015	Jeh C. Johnson, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security	Achieving Our Homeland Security while Preserving Our Values and Our Liberty	full text and video
57	2016	Dr. Bennet Omalu, forensic pathologist and neuropathologist
58	2017	The Hon. Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont		full video
59	2019	The Hon. Dr. Madeline K. Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State	For Those Who Cherish Freedom: Democracy in the 21st Century	full text (p 57) | full video
60	2025	Jay Nixon, former Governor of Missouri	Justice Renewed: Rebuilding Trust in Our Leaders and Ourselves	full video

In addition to the Green Lecture transcripts available on our website, the print transcripts for a limited number of the John Findley Green Foundation Lectures can be found in the Museum's Clementine Spencer Churchill Reading Room or at Westminster College's Reeves Library.

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