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Sometimes resistance to Communist pressure would be as direct and ruthless as that at Maragha in Persia, where four men accused as leaders of the Communist-inspired revolt in Azerbaijan province were hanged (see cut) as examples to others who might be tempted to follow the Russian line...
...little ones. As many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
...store by the bullbat session. In Moscow last December he had a long, informal chat with Joe Stalin. Joe seemed to like Jimmy, and when Jimmy left he thought he and Joe saw eye-to-eye on two points Jimmy had made: 1) the Russians should go easy on Persia, and 2) a 25-year treaty guaranteeing the disarmament of Germany would be a good thing...
...Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then called on the U.S. vigorously to "sustain its own purposes and ideals on all occasions as Russia does." Jimmy got the point; at the same time Moscow's refusal to take its troops out of Persia was beginning to convince Byrnes that dealing with Stalin was not much different from dealing with Molotov...
...long run, for example, it would not be enough to stop Russian political penetration in Persia; the full exercise of U.S. leadership would require that the U.S. help the Persian Government toward economic progress and political democracy for the Persian people. Otherwise, many of them would be attracted toward Communism, as they were last year. This problem existed throughout the Middle East, over much of Europe, the whole Far East and parts of Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That...