Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faraway Teheran the Ritz Hotel featured Arestu on its menu. A TIME correspondent Ordered it, found it to be the local way of writing Irish stew...
Tinker's Dam. Had 1946 ended as it began, Molotov would have been the year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
...most important event on the world stage last week was something that did not happen. Despite its intense interest and ambitions in the Middle East (see below), Russia failed to react when the Persian Government sent troops into Azerbaijan Province to supervise elections and to reassert Teheran's authority. The outcome was U.N.'s first practical victory in its fight to keep the peace...
Just a year ago a Kremlin-coached team of politicians in Azerbaijan, which adjoins the Soviet border, had proclaimed Azerbaijan "independence." The Teheran Government's fortunes reached a low point last May when it virtually disowned its Washington Ambassador, bright-eyed little Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish...
...Elliott also thought that the Soviet Union had never broken its word. While the United States and Britain repeatedly violated their pledges at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, the Soviets faithfully observed theirs. . . . 'Can anyone here,' he demanded, 'name one instance in which the United States acted to further the cause of peace...