 The speech is also popularly (if inaccurately) known as the ""Winds" of Change" speech.Macmillan himself, in titling the first volume of his memoirs, "Winds of Change" (1966), seems to have acquiesced in this popular misquotation of the original text.The Portuguese Colonial War started in 1961 in Angola, and extended to other Portuguese overseas territories at the time, namely Portuguese Guinea in 1963 and Mozambique in 1964.