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.
Churchill Gives Iron Curtain Speech. Although the term Iron Curtain was first used by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels early in 1945, it was popularized by Winston Churchill during an address he made in the United States in March 1946.