The "Wind of Change" speech was an address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town.He had spent a month in Africa in visiting a number of British colonies. The speech signalled clearly that the Conservative Party, which formed the British government, had no intention to block the independence to many of …

An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows in a westward direction. This wind is referenced as symbolism in mythology, poetry and literature. ... the East Wind symbolizes change in P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins series ... Holmes' same speech from "His Last Bow" was used at the end of the 1942 Basil Rathbone Holmes film, ...