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...never believed Teheran would be dropped from history, nor that the invitation list to the Cairo conference would be posthumously revised to include Premier Stalin...
...very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van Kleffens pressed for the exact nature and terms of what Gromyko had referred to as "an agreement," "an understanding," and "negotiations...
...bigger than Texas. She has placed behind the quarantine of "friendly" (i.e., dociie) Governments the nations on her borders, and now has the two chief exceptions, Iran and Turkey, under deep-sea pressure. Even Iran's oil means less to her than the reassurance a puppet regime in Teheran would give...
...friendly" government in Teheran, for instance, would not appeal to UNO. At week's end the Russians were reported asking for a token of his cooperation in the form of oil concessions in northern Iran; if Gavam gave in, Moscow might decide that the Red Army's presence was unnecessary. Then Britain and the U.S. would have to decide whether to bring before UNO a charge that Russia had coerced Iran into "friendship." If Iran was a sample, disputes before UNO were likely to partake of the bewildering complexity of the British divorce courts rather than the classic...
...Teheran, the movie-in-progress, is a spy-soaked thriller, with clips from actual newsreels, built around the OGPU-reported Nazi plot to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Teheran meeting of the Big Three. British Producer John Stafford, backed by British-Italian capital and using a mixed British-Italiah-American cast, had set up shop in Rome's Scalera Studios because of a shortage of studio space and studio personnel in England...