Word: baku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly where in Russia Minister Hart was, the State Department did not know. Geographers believed that his itinerary lay to Constantinople, then across the Black Sea to Batum in Georgia, whence he would go by train across the Transcaucasian S. F. S. R. to Baku. There he would ship down the Caspian to Barfrush, going overland to Teheran. Had he traveled through countries officially recognized by the U. S., his route would have taken him to Damascus, with a flight to Bagdad or perhaps by water around Arabia and up to the head of the Persian Gulf...