whos words was the iron curtain speech a response to? what did the other man mean? what did time magazine say about him?
In this case the word sinews referes to the sources or mainstays of peace.
iron curtain was a metaphor for communism in the eastern European area.
Iron Curtain Speech March 5, 1945 Winston Churchill gave this speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, after receiving an honorary degree. With typical oratorical skills, Church introduced the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the division between Western powers and the area controlled by the Soviet Union. As such the speech marks the onset of the Cold War.
