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.
1 Photograph of Winston Churchill with Bernard Baruch, the leader of Israel, in 1961. 2  Churchill (pictured left) declared that the Soviets had placed an âiron curtainâ around Eastern Europe dividing the east from the west.