Who first spoke of the "iron curtain"?

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nincompoop · Answer

wanna ask me?

opcode · Answer

You are joking right?
The guy is famous... Just Google iron curtain and you will know.

nincompoop · Answer

umm it doesn't tell you who first coined the term, @Opcode

nincompoop · Answer

but you can ask me who did

opcode · Answer

@nincompoop 
It is Winston Churchill... I am pretty sure she could have figured it out with some easy research...

nincompoop · Answer

he popularized the use of it in a speech, but the term has occurred before that speech decades prior.

nincompoop · Answer

I told you, just ask me :P

opcode · Answer

Really? So who first said it?

nincompoop · Answer

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/453756?uid=3739808&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102652710383 there you go remember the works of HG Wells

nincompoop · Answer

the phrase is believed to have been used even in the 1800's, but no records in print is found to support this claim.  

If you want the whole paper, let me know so I can pull it up from my e-library.

nincompoop · Answer

google is a good source, if you know how to dig into scholarly papers :D

opcode · Answer

Very interesting, thank you nincompoop. :-).

nincompoop · Answer

learn something new everyday/night

nincompoop · Answer

I hope  that our lovely Sammie has read the excerpt of the source. And if she ever need the proper citation for bibliography, all she has to do is ask.