FYI _http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2011_01/anon4651.html_ (http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2011_01/anon4651.html) Iron curtain This term became basic to world politics after Winston Churchill used it in a 1946 speech, referring to the political divide between the Soviet Union and the nations it dominated, on the one hand, and the rest of the world, on the other. But Ethel Snowden (1881–1951), an English suffragette, used it in this sense much earlier, in her 1920 book Through Bolshevik Russia: "We were behind the ‘iron curtain’ at last!"
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