Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow let it be known that it regarded the presence of British warships in the Persian Gulf as "an intention to pressure Iran and actively intervene in her internal affairs...
...Article Six provides: if a third party should use Persia as a base of operations against Russia, "the U.S.S.R. shall have the right to advance its troops into the Persian interior...
Richard Nelson Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will travel to Persia to take presses and photographs of all available ancient Persian writings...
Died. Dikran ("Papa") Kelekian, 83, Turkish-born dealer in "Persian pots and Parisian paintings," early U.S. champion of Picasso and Matisse; in a jump from his 23rd floor hotel suite; in Manhattan. His "good customers" included John D. Rockefeller...
...bolt-action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian and the Persian Gulf. The U.S., in Iran, has made no effort comparable to its military-aid program in Turkey. Granted that Iran has no such military tradition as Turkey's, a well-equipped Iranian army could make an invasion costly to the Russians...