Word: azerbaijan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heard Iranian charges against Russian troops in Azerbaijan and Russian countercharges against British troops in Greece and Indonesia...
...part of the G.V.P. is TIME Mapmaker Chapin's technical audacity (same issue, same page) in moving the city of Batum (pop. 70,807) a full 600 miles across Soviet Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from its customary place on the Black Sea, to the low-level Caspian...
...Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center of open disputes openly arrived...
...efforts, Bevin won and Iran remained on the Council agenda. But London thought Vishinsky might win his case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...
...Iran's elderly Premier, Ebrahim Hakimi, pointed up the growing crisis by resigning. He had pleaded in vain with the Russians to take the Red Army out of the northern parts of his country, withdraw their support from the rebel government that had sprung up in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan...