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's Iron Curtain Speech. and the Soviet Response. In March 1946, Churchill presented his speech The Sinews of Peace or The Iron Curtain Speech. He gave it in Fulton, Missouri as a response to Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe.