Word: teheran
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...most remarkable thing about Franklin Roosevelt's plan for world peace was the extraordinarily casual way in which it was announced. To newsmen, who recalled the dramatic sea scene of the Atlantic Charter, and the international rumors which preceded Teheran, it seemed almost as if the President were deliberately dodging a headline. For one thing, the President's announcement was submerged in the wave of exciting war news...
...York via Newfoundland or Labrador, Greenland, Iceland to Oslo-Stocknolm-Helsinki-Leningrad-Moscow-Teheran-Basra...
...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
Fortnight ago Flying Fortresses from Italy, with Lieut. Gen. Ira Eaker riding along, made history by bombing Rumanian targets and then going on into Russia, where they landed at bases arranged at the Teheran Conference. Last week they made more history by running off the first U.S. bombing raid from Russian soil-a heavy strike at the Rumanian Danube port of Galati...
...Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...