Word: persia
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...Also shown in Moscow was Iran, a Soviet film picturing the busy Anglo-American supply line through Persia to Russia. Russian audiences saw the delivery of American planes to Red pilots; American technicians assembling other war goods, shipping them in U.S. trucks over mountain highways built or improved by British engineers...
...books, warning steadily of tragic postwar possibilities, runs the theme of international suspicions and hatreds. Mutual dislike was a feature common to the letters Graebner found on Austrian, Ba varian and Prussian soldiers. Lack of a second front, says Graebner, has turned many Russians against Britain and America. Occupied Persia fears Russia, is "sick and tired" of the British, accepts Americans enthusiastically only, perhaps, because they are "new." Graebner believes that American popularity is dwindling in Trinidad, South America and the Middle East as a result of violent "bad behavior" on the part of newly arrived Americans...
...fruit of victory turned bitter; within twenty years Germany was again on the march to establish domination over the peoples "between Germany and Persia," America was soon to fight again in self-defense, and the progress in liberty, won in 1918, seemed lost. In his memorable Western speeches in September 1919 Woodrow Wilson predicted that outcome "with absolute certainty" in case America should not enter the League and the Treaty of Versailles be not enforced...
...Arthur Chester Millspaugh, political scientist and financial adviser, is making his second effort to reform Persia's national economy (he had the same job 21 years ago). Oil is Persia's principal resource, but Persians see little of it. Persia's oilfields are principally controlled by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The people depend on the land, and most of the under-cultivated, ill-used land belongs to the same absentee moguls who control the national finances...
Patches for War. The difficulties all stem from an economic system the advisers are not empowered to change. At best, they can only do a patchwork job on the facade of Persia. If they can make the patches stick long enough to get Persia's important job of war supply done, they will have earned their keep and the thanks of the Allies...