Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula was in full application last week. Britain no longer aggressively expanding her empire could scarcely count on firm U.S. support so remote a corner of the world as Irans northwest corner, Azerbaijan. Because the Russians knew this well the men of the Red Army who occupy northern Iran were appointed by Moscow as paladins of self-determination. Benevolently, they looked the other way while the new Communist-inspired "Democratic Party" led a revolt. The crooked streets of Tabriz, Iran's second city, were clouded with dust and excitement as the National Assembly prepared to proclaim the province...
...evoked diplomatic notes to Moscow as strongly worded as Teheran could wish. But words had no great weight last week in the wooded hills and fertile valleys of Azerbaijan. The Teheran Government temporized by appointing a commission made up largely of former premiers to investigate the situation in the northwest. It was a weak expedient, but Teheran had probably heard that Washington's unoffi cial attitude was "What more...
Yenan's loess cave dwellings were rapidly emptying. For the second time in a decade, China's Communists were shifting their center of political gravity. In 1934-35 they had staged their famed Long March of 8,500 miles from Central China to the remote Northwest; of 100,000 marchers an exhausted 20,000 survived to set up headquarters at Yenan. Now, more powerful than ever, the Communists were heading north and east to Kalgan...
...will be scarce and expensive this Christmas in most of the U.S. Reason: late spring frosts and unseasonal rains left trees in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia (which supply most eastern holly) almost devoid of berries. What little holly there is must be shipped from Texas and the Northwest...
...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...