Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Churchill was grim as he exhumed the "grim, bare bones" of the Polish question. He reported: "On Feb. 22 I said that at Teheran I took occasion to raise personally with Marshal Stalin the question of the future of Poland. It was with great pleasure that I heard from Marshal Stalin that he, too, was resolved upon the creation and maintenance of a strong, integral, independent Poland as one of the leading powers in Europe. He several times repeated this declaration in public. I am convinced that that represents the settled policy of the Soviet Union...
...heads of the Lublin Government were conferring in Moscow. It was expected that by next week they would be recognized as Poland's provisional government. Though political purists might cavil at the word "independent," Marshal Stalin had spoken only the literal truth to Prime Minister Churchill at Teheran, since the Lublin Government was Russian-controlled...
From London, New York Timesman Raymond Daniell reported that the decision to partition Poland was nothing new, that it had been agreed on last year at the Teheran Conference between Churchill, Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt...
Armed with a bronze plaque for the City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
...Iranian Government." U.S. troops are there to rush U.S. supplies to the Red Army. But most of this traffic now goes via Murmansk. In effect, Izvestia's statement said that the Soviet Government would no longer honor Stalin's pledge, signed jointly with Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran last year, to "respect" Iran's "sovereignty and independence." In the course of the dispute, Russia informed Iran that Russia now considers itself "a Middle Eastern power...