Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to "increase the intellectual and cultural interests between Iran and America," Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, Professor of Law at the University of Teheran and Editor of the popular Iranian newspaper, Kaihan, spent last week at Harvard as the guest of the University. Accompanied by three other Iranian editors, Mesbahzadeh made a three-month tour of key cities as guest of the State Department and the Office of War Information...
Visiting San Francisco, Hollywood, Tennessee Valley, Chicago, and New York, Mesbahzadeh met President Truman, Secretary Stimson, and other cabinet members, several congressmen, including Senators McKeller and Connally and Representative Clare Booth Luce. He spoke to these leading statesmen concerning Iran's contributions to the war-effort and, stating that America has definite responsibilities in the Near and Middle East, expressed the hope that in peace as in war she will continue to lend support to the small nations of the East...
...interview with the SERVICE NEWS, Mesbahzadeh former head of the Department of Information and Propaganda in Iran, emphasized the extent to which Iran has contributed to the war-effort by transporting more than 6,000,000 tons of lend-lease material to Russia over their only railroad, which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea passing through Teheran...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...