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There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...
...Read a Gallup Poll showing that 61% of the nation's voting Democrats favor Truman for President in 1948 (runners-up: Henry Wallace, General Dwight Eisenhower, James Byrnes and Edward Stettinius...
Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
...America's Edward Stettinius: the voice of a "jovial salesman...
When Gromyko spoke for the third time, his usually dry, level voice shook with anger. Fiercely, he called Stettinius a "troublemaker," charged the "most possible fuss" had been made of the matter. Britain's usually impassive Sir Alexander Cadogan, his face flushed with indignation and the Council chamber's oppressive heat, pointed out that the Iran matter would have been disposed of by a routine report on May 6. "If Russia hadn't brought it up today, this wouldn't have happened." Later, in the bar, Brazil's Pedro Leao Velloso remarked to Gromyko...