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Right through last month Soviet newspapers continued to print columns of birthday salutations to Stalin. Under the heading "Flow of Greetings," Izvestia recently printed birthday best wishes from the workers of the Kilyazinsk fish cannery, of the Azerbaijan S.S.R., from the physical culture workers of Minsk and from the employees of Kharkov's vinegar factory...
...Diplomat is the story of a diplomatic mission to Moscow and Iran in 1946. Lord Essex, ace British negotiator who works over the heads of embassies, is trying to talk the -Russians out of supporting a revolution in the province of Azerbaijan. His objectives: to safeguard British oil in Iran, check Russian expansion, keep a friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues...
...symphonic poem, On the Other Side of the Araks, was written to celebrate the struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...
...stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey's, to revolt...
Persia, from which the U.N. had forced Russia to withdraw her troops in 1947, seemed to be selected as the main area of Soviet pressure. This week from Teheran came reports that Soviet tanks and armored cars had rolled over the border into Azerbaijan and opened fire on a Persian outpost at Qanli Boulaq near the Caspian Sea. Two Persians were killed. The border incident was the most serious of six such attacks on Persia in the past few months...