A rare âmedicaneâ formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech to a crowd of more than 40,000 people. The speech was named by Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, and changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East.
Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined the term iron curtain in a speech given in Mussouri. IN this speech he said that Stalin had drawn an iron curtain that separated Easter Europe from the Western world. He also urged the Western World to liberate the enslaved people of Eastern Europe from Communism.