On this day in 1946, Winston Churchill coined the well-known Cold War term when he declared that "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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Extracts from Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech given in the USA in March 1946 (Catalogue ref: FO 371/51624) Transcript BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES AN AGENCY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ADVANCE RELEASE F...