Word: teheran
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...British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible partner in peace severely shaken...
There was trouble between Moscow and London this week. A row broke into the open, ostensibly over the shape and complexion of postwar Poland. But the sound of the brawling stirred the old ghosts which plain people everywhere had hoped were laid for good & all at Teheran...
Moscow was angry. London was huffy and worried. Washington, acutely interested in the continuing good name of Teheran, was acutely uneasy. Seven weeks after Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill pledged themselves and their countries to ". . . work together in the war and in the peace . . ." the Big Three found themselves, not in collaboration, but in a test case which may well determine the future of world amity...
...claim. Ethnologically and morally, Poland's claim to parts of Germany is no better than her claim to the eastern provinces; the single merit of such a gerrymander is that it would strengthen Russia and Poland, weaken Germany. There is much evidence that this idea was discussed at Teheran...
...Gave the Pacific War Council its first star-performer account of the Cairo and Teheran conferences...