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.
Winston Churchill applied the phrase Iron Curtain to the situation in Europe after World War II. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium had previously used it after World War I. It was â¦ used by some else first. Not the queen of Belgium either.