Word: teheran
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...will be able to get an agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also to be heard by the President of the U.S. A few weeks after Teheran, Soviet Russia had served gruff notice that the friendliest attempt to interfere with her unilateral decisions about the fate of Eastern Europe - or even to discuss them - would be resented...
...notion that Law and not Force should regulate international relations. Even so, last week no U.S. citizen, even among Polish immigrants, would have advocated serious U.S. commitments to correct the Russo-Polish border this way or another. But many Americans felt that Stalin's P.S. to Teheran was quite a mortgage on the desired future of U.S.Russian friendship...
...eleventh message to Congress on the State of the Union, President Roosevelt gave assurance that "there were no secret treaties or political or financial commitments" made at Cairo and Teheran, declared that a basic essential for future peace is "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children in all nations" and proposed for the U.S. an "economic bill of rights" which showed that the New Deal is far from dead in the heart of its great sponsor. But the big news of his message-read to Congress by clerks while he nursed his vanishing...
...Army had taken Rokitno, ten miles inside Rovno Province and one step closer to the still distant (200 miles) Polish border. Most of the rest of the world considered that the Russians had advanced ten miles into Poland. The difference in viewpoint established the first tangible test of Teheran; people everywhere watched to see how the powers would meet...
...taken the slap too much to heart-it was completely in tune with Soviet Russia's recent reactions to any & all suggestions that Eastern Europe and Russian affairs in that area are subject to world discussion. On its face, this fact seemed to hoot at the Moscow and Teheran declarations that Russia, the U.S. and Britain share a common interest in Europe, along with the rest of the world...