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.
The other countries to the west of the Iron Curtain had democratic governments. The term Iron Curtain was coined by German politician Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and made popular by Winston Churchill, who first used it in a public speech in March of 1946.