Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take over next month from the present "caretaker" government, pending India's full dominion status. Five of the 14 seats were reserved for Moslems, but since Jinnah's Moslem League has refused to participate, Wavell appointed nonLeague Moslems. One of these, Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, who clung to his British title and resigned from the League three weeks ago, was attacked apparently by co-religionists at Simla at week's end, stabbed seven times, hospitalized...
Wily, old (70) Ahmad Gavam reshuffled his Cabinet to include three members of the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party. What...
...tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel New Weston, the Iranian delegation unpacked its long winter underwear. They were prepared to fight it out on Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh's line if it took all summer-and next winter too. But it might not take that long. Things looked better, though not perfect, as the UNO Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding...
...Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh was back from Moscow, where his gentle dickering had yielded no assurances of Russian departure. The March 2 deadline in the Anglo-Russian-Iranian treaty continued to be honored in the breach. Premier Gavam could not defend his country or the world's peace. He waited uneasily for this week's showdown meeting of UNO's Security Council in New York...
...midnight on March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...