Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnightly War and the Working Class, semi-official organ of external Soviet policy, answered some questions about Russia's post-Teheran position...
...President planned to report any fresh details of Cairo and Teheran to the American people, or to offer any concrete proposals, he was perhaps saving them for his State of the Union speech to Congress...
...have been suppressed to protect military reputations; more have been withheld or slanted to "protect" U.S. morale. Still others have been withheld because of President Roosevelt's growing love of secrecy. The public at large ascribed press protests at the neglect and exclusion of reporters at Cairo and Teheran to self-interested bellyaching. But Elmer Davis does not work for the U.S. press; he works for the U.S. people. There was room for six Filipino cooks in the President's Cairo-Teheran party, but no room for Mr. Davis...
...President distrusts the press, his Christmas Eve broadcast offered no evidence that he trusts the people more. The generalities of his speech were bare-boned in contrast with the detailed reports, confided privately by the President and other Cairo-Teheran conferees, which were flooding Washington and the nation...
Four weeks after Teheran, the first exuberance was soberly shaking down. In his report to the world, President Roosevelt confirmed what London and Moscow were already saying: the general agreement on broad principles still left thorny, potentially disruptive differences to be settled...