Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of Franklin Roosevelt last appeared on TIME'S cover on the eve of Teheran in November...
History v. Honor. In Cairo, in December 1943, just before they first met Stalin at Teheran, Roosevelt and Churchill gave their national word of honor to 1) return Manchuria to China, 2) make Korea a free and independent country...
...will go to school in Moscow, and he and his mother are both studying Russian on phonograph records. But travel to Russia is rugged these days even for a man. (Thompson went in an ATC plane that carried him across the Atlantic and the rim of Africa to Teheran, where the Russians picked him up and flew him over the Caucasus and into the Soviet Union. "The trip," he reported, "was cold, uncomfortable-and wonderful...
World of Dynamite. That world is more important because of where it is than because of what it has. A look at the Big Three maps will show that its strategic position is as great now as it ever has been -Teheran lies to the northeast, Yalta to the northwest, Great Bitter Lake in the southwest...
What were Russia's interests in the Middle East? This was the biggest problem of all. If King Farouk doubted that Russia had any such interests, his brother-in-law, Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi, could quickly undeceive him. Scarcely three months ago Russia had overturned a Teheran government that refused the Kremlin oil concessions in Iran (TIME, Nov. 20). And at 25, King Farouk was politically old enough to know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian...