Word: riza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow propaganda trumpeted the customary accusations: the U.S. was transforming Persia into a military base against the Soviet Union; as a pretext for the outlawing of Persia's Communist Party, the U.S. had engineered last month's attempt on the life of Shah Riza Pahlevi,* who was glumly recovering from his injuries (see cut). In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson called these Russian accusations "false and demonstrably untrue...