Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open backing of the anti-Government Tudeh Party. At Teheran's House of Russian Culture, a Tudeh member was recently permitted to make a savage attack on the Iranian Government. Nothing that happens in one part of the Near East can fail to affect the rest of that region, Russia's actions in Iran, especially taken together with her recent demands on Turkey, were important to more governments than Iran, more people than the Iranians...
Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage...
...Rectification of Turkey's Asia Minor frontier. This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia. The Kars area (see map), was wrested from Turkey by the Tsars in the 19th Century, given back by the Bolsheviks in 1921, when Allied forces were in control of Kars...
Athwart the Oil Arteries. Russia's demand for Kars had far-reaching implications. Physically the region is a remote forested plateau, once part of Armenia, now predominantly populated by Kurdish shepherds and bandits. It has fairly valuable salt mines, and rigorous winters. But strategically, Kars is a bastion commanding the entrance from Turkey into Russia and from Russia into Turkey...