Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just outside of Livingston, Ala. the dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial...
Iran. Last week the Council received a report from Teheran that the Red Army had withdrawn from Azerbaijan. Iran's Ambassador Hussein Ala wondered how thorough were the findings of his Government's investigating commission to Azerbaijan. Poland's Oscar Lange asked Ala: "Did the commission make its investigation from an airplane by telescope...
...regards a telescope or even a microscope . . ." answered Ala, "I know they went by air and they went by Soviet airplane." Even Lange joined in the laugh that swept the chamber...
There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...
...cracked the whip of discipline on the Army of Occupation in Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe, told the U.S. some sad truths about the occupying U.S. soldier...