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...chance to implement his brave new words lay embarrassingly close at hand. This week Iran asked the U.S. to protest Russia's action there. Russia's refusal to quit Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS) could well be interpreted as: 1) the "unilateral gnawing away of the status quo"; 2) aggression by "coercion or pressure"; 3) an entering wedge "for further and undisclosed penetration of power"; or even 4) "a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
...Heard Iranian charges against Russian troops in Azerbaijan and Russian countercharges against British troops in Greece and Indonesia...
...soon as he can, Asch hopes to record folk music from the southern Soviet republics of Tadjik and Azerbaijan, Greece, Hungary, South Africa and Haiti. Says he: "It's not very profitable, but it's steady...
...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...
...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...