Word: teheran
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...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...
After all, it had been 14 long years since the fading voice of the Republican Party had been the voice of the U.S. in the far corners of the earth. And a lot, to put it mildly, had happened since then. Last week the Persians who operate Teheran's powerful broadcasting station reported: "The Communists have won control of the U.S. Government." Instantly Persian officials were bombarded by inquiries. One attributed the mistake to the fact that the U.S. elections were "won by a new political party with a name we've never heard of before...
...spite of bewilderment in Teheran (see above), many people in many capitals of Europe and Asia knew quite well who the U.S. Republicans were, and had expected them...
Worn but Sound. Dr. Mclntire's memoirs of these years is fiercely protective of his patient, generally devoid of spectacular revelations and gossip. "In writing of Teheran and Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
...only two nations whose security interests clash today" are Britain and Russia. Instead of arbitrating these differences, "as Father had always been careful to do," Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes have gone over to the British. Observer Roosevelt adds a footnote: "'The biggest thing,' Father commented [after Teheran], 'was in making clear to Stalin that the United States and Great Britain were not allied. . . . I think we've got rid of that idea, once...