Word: teheran
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...diplomatic agent at Tangier, with the rank of minister. Originally (TIME, Feb. 21), Holmes was scheduled to become Ambassador to Iran, but the nomination was withdrawn because 1) some opposition developed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 2) a physical examination disclosed that he had ulcers. Tangier,-unlike Teheran, does not require Senate confirmation, will be less taxing physically for Diplomat Holmes...
Fiercely mustachioed General Nader Batmanghelich, chief of staff of the Iranian army, raised a pickax one day last week and brought it down hard on one of the highest domes in Teheran. This ceremonial blow dramatized the Iranian government's outlawing of the Bahai religion in the land where it was born and began the conversion of Bahai national headquarters into a secular building. All over the world, from the lakeside gentility of Chicago to Israel's port city of Haifa, Bahai voices rose in protest...
...their first Yalta téte-à-téte, Roosevelt and Stalin recalled Stalin's toast at Teheran a year before to the idea of executing 50,000 German army officers as reprisal...
...Teheran, five weeks later, Stalin repeated the pledge. He also let it be known that he would like a warm-water port in the Far East. Churchill remarked that Russia already had Vladivostok. Stalin replied it wasn't always ice-free. Roosevelt suggested the Russians might have access to Dairen, in Manchuria...
...pilot in the Army Air Forces. Right after Pearl Harbor he married Olive Field Cawley, then started shuttling between Russia and the Middle East on staff missions. In his B-24 he once flew escort for Britain's Prime Minister Churchill on a long flight from Moscow to Teheran. When he got out in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel with 2,000 hours of flight time, the Air Medal, and senior pilot's wings...