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.
However, the first usage of iron curtain perhaps should be attributed to British author Arthur Machen (1863â1947), who used the term in his 1895 novel The Three Impostors :  .. . the door clanged behind me with the noise of thunder, and I felt that an iron curtain had fallen on the brief passage of my life.hurchill's first recorded use the term iron curtain came in a 12 May 1945 telegram he sent to U.S. President Harry S. Truman regarding his concern about Soviet actions, stating [a]n iron curtain is drawn down upon their front.