Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much news, that he was saving most of his report on his travels for a Christmas Eve broadcast to the Armed Forces. Anything left over he might tell Congress in his January state-of-the-union speech. At this point the disgusted Washington reporters, who had been scooped about Teheran and Cairo until they were raw, almost threw away their pencils. The President then, almost too casually, announced the so-called "plot" to assassinate the Big III at Teheran. This made satisfactory headlines for a few editions...
...President left Washington immediately after his appearance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day. His method of travel to and from Africa is a military secret. For the rest of the trip he used a Douglas C-54, flying in it to Cairo and Teheran and back from Teheran to Cairo, Carthage, Malta, Sicily and finally to Dakar. His mode of travel from Dakar home was not disclosed...
...night after arrival of the President's party in Teheran, Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov telephoned Averell Harriman, told him the Ogpu had discovered a German plot on the lives of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. He suggested that Franklin Roosevelt move from the American to the Russian Embassy. The President did so, the next day. Churchill remained at the British Embassy, just across the street. The Russians then threw a screen around the Russian and British Embassies, turning them, in effect, into one armed camp. Probable reason for the scare: week before, 38 German paratroopers had been dropped...
...President did all his Christmas shopping in U.S. Army post exchanges in Cairo and Teheran. The Army had previously picked out choice wares from native street bazaars, and held the price-hagglers down by an unofficial international OPA ceiling of their...
...Prime Minister had lingered on in the Middle East, picking up loose ends of the Cairo and Teheran conferences. Suddenly, it was announced, his cold had developed into pneumonia. During the next four days the world waited for each bulletin from 10 Downing Street. Occasionally it was stirred by rumors that the end had come. Although the people knew that on Nov. 30 Churchill had entered the last year of his Biblical allotment, it was unthinkable that he might die now, before his mighty job was done...