Word: teheran
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...fortnightly War and the Working Class, semi-official organ of external Soviet policy, answered some questions about Russia's post-Teheran position...
...have been suppressed to protect military reputations; more have been withheld or slanted to "protect" U.S. morale. Still others have been withheld because of President Roosevelt's growing love of secrecy. The public at large ascribed press protests at the neglect and exclusion of reporters at Cairo and Teheran to self-interested bellyaching. But Elmer Davis does not work for the U.S. press; he works for the U.S. people. There was room for six Filipino cooks in the President's Cairo-Teheran party, but no room for Mr. Davis...
...President distrusts the press, his Christmas Eve broadcast offered no evidence that he trusts the people more. The generalities of his speech were bare-boned in contrast with the detailed reports, confided privately by the President and other Cairo-Teheran conferees, which were flooding Washington and the nation...
Four weeks after Teheran, the first exuberance was soberly shaking down. In his report to the world, President Roosevelt confirmed what London and Moscow were already saying: the general agreement on broad principles still left thorny, potentially disruptive differences to be settled...
...still on the record with its cold comment on the Czecho-Russian treaty; the unofficial explanation was still that the agreement did not fit the U.S. concept of "overall security." London sources took a precisely opposite view, held with the Russians that the treaty neither contradicted the principles of Teheran nor alarmed the British. One possible explanation: once again Mr. Roosevelt, speaking warmly of the Russians and all their recent works, knew more about actual U.S. policy than the State Department's functionaries did. A corollary explanation may be that the Russians, willing enough to enter an overall system...