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...United Nations' first-and only clear-cut-contribution to checking Russian aggression resulted in the withdrawal of the Red army from Persia in the spring of 1946. After the Azerbaijan crisis, the Russians turned off the heat; last week, they turned it on again...
Examiners pinned a number on the front and back of each man's coat. On the general-information test, the Burma war veteran (who was No. 17) was asked: 1) Who was the Prime Minister of Iran at the beginning of the Azerbaijan dispute? 2) Who was the C.I.O.'s first boss? 3) Who founded the 19th Century science of criminology...
...Gavam, for it might persuade the Shah that only Gavam could form a stable government. And the confusion was certainly pleasing to Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope of Persia's wretched twelve million. When they occupied Azerbaijan during and after World War II, the Russians made a fine show of constructiveness. Their puppet government paved some streets in Tabriz, opened a radio station, started land reforms...
While they wooed Persian peasants with promises of reforms, the Russians also needled the Persian government in a war of nerves. Red army divisions held maneuvers this spring on the Azerbaijan border...
...April 1946, while Russian troops occupied Persia's northern province of Azerbaijan, Premier Ahmad Gavam notified Ivan V. Sadchikov, Russian Ambassador to Persia, that the Persian Government agreed that the two Governments should establish a joint company "to explore and exploit oil-producing territories" in northern Persia...