Word: kazvin
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...Send and Shah Rivers. A long column of horse-drawn artillery and trucks, two miles long", stretched along both sides of the road in a hairpin bend. Several hundred troops basked in the sun alongside the vehicles. There must have been hundreds more within the trucks. Just outside Kazvin we saw a column of infantry marching up the road. Behind them came carts, piled high with desks, tables, telephone wire, and other paraphernalia...
Shivering Teheranis called it the coldest spring in living memory. They meant not merely the winds from the mountains; somewhere between Kazvin and the Soviet border the Red Army was backing and wheeling in full combat regalia. No one knew just where it was, how big it was, or what it was doing. But that it was there at all was enough to shake the world's "foundations of peace...
...happened near Kazvin, about 90 miles northwest of Teheran, one day last week. Teheran's official version: a Red Army officer and his jeepload of four machine gunners halted the commander of an Iranian force, speeding to combat a Communist-inspired uprising in Azerbaijan province. The Russian ordered the four Iranian battalions to turn back, "otherwise he would be obliged to use the machine guns...
...York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, who at Kazvin with Russian officers drank bottoms-up vodka toasts to Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and "reunion in Berlin," radioed home an interesting ethnological note. After Abadan had been taken, the British commander received an offer of surrender from 500 Iranian troops that had crossed the river there and escaped. A veteran of the Libyan campaign and recalling Italian military mores, the British commander sent back word that if the 500 would appear at the ferry landing at 8 the next morning he would consent to make them prisoners. Next morning they...
...story is told that a British colonel at Kazvin, whither the anti-Bolshevik forces had retreated, spotted among the Cossack Brigade's remaining officers a striking six-foot Persian with hard grey eyes. His name was Reza Khan. The colonel knew him for a brave man and, in a last desperate attempt to keep the brigade together, he put him in command. Had he not done so, the future King of Kings might have died an unknown old horse bully...