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Sure enough, when the Ferdinand Magellan rolled into Independence, a crowd of 8,500 jammed the little red brick Missouri Pacific station and the surrounding streets. The Eagles were there in snappy red & blue capes, the Ararat Shriners sported their fezzes, and the boys from Captain Truman's old Battery D wore red arm bands. Cried Harry Truman: "It's magnificent. We're back home now for good . . . After I get finished with the job Mrs. Truman has for me-unpacking-I'll be open for dinner engagements. I may be hungry...
Wadsworth is probably a little overenthusiastic. Furthermore, Turkey already has 367 miles of Soviet frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
Bell found less comfort when he headed for the line where the worst trouble could begin - the Russo-Iranian frontier between the Caspian Sea and Mt. Ararat. Nervous officers showed him their defense preparations and tried to keep him hidden from watchful Russian binoculars across the line. In the whole area he found panic-ridden faces, men afraid to talk for fear of the police or of ever-present Communist agents...
What with the current upper-class Bolshevik prosperity, it looks as though the Aragvi, together with the Ararat and the others, will all be packed with heavy spenders. As Stalin said in the '30s, "Life is getting easier, life is getting happier...
Happy Day. Last week's newcomer restaurant, the Ararat, is operated by the government of the Armenian S.S.R., which has spared no efforts to outdo the Aragvi. The best cook in the Armenian capital has been brought to Moscow. Armenian wines have arrived to stock the Ararat's cellar...