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Wily, old (70) Ahmad Gavam reshuffled his Cabinet to include three members of the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party. What...
There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...
...Iran itself the Russians turned the screw a little tighter. The Gavam Government played along by slapping censorship on foreign correspondents, suppressing the rightist press and jailing so many rightist leaders that even moderates were afraid to file for the June 7 elections...
...Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims...
...Know what you are talking about. Mathieu insists that an interpreter must know all about U.N. affairs and current history-and a great many other things as well. When the Iranian Ambassador told the Council how Premier Gavam had been dined & wined in Moscow last month, the French interpretation mentioned only dining. Wine, Mathieu explained later, was a matter of course to a Frenchman...