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Roosevelt first suggested to Stalin that the "most central point for you and me would be the north of Scotland." Stalin scotched that idea with the reply, through Ambassador Averell Harriman, that he had suffered ear trouble after his 1943 trip to Teheran, and this his "doctors considered any change of climate would have a bad effect." In the face of this rebuff, the eager Roosevelt sent word that the Black Sea area might be suitable. Stalin said he "would be delighted...
...April 1, said Lufthansa confidently, it would begin scheduled commercial flights inside West Germany, soon to be followed by regular flights to continental points, Britain and New York. Not long after, Lufthansa expects to be making four flights weekly to New York, two to Buenos Aires, three to Teheran. Predicted Lufthansa: by 1956 it would be flying to New York ten times a week and opening new routes to the Orient...
Despite the cocoon of protocol that enveloped him, the Shah liked the country, took some pleasant impressions back to Teheran. Last week, after some turbulent times in Iran, the Shah was back again. He had two purposes in mind: 1) to relax and show his beautiful Queen Soraya the wonders of the U.S., and 2) to get U.S. medical opinion on why they have no children after four years of marriage...
Prince Ali had gone up north to hunt, and to look in on his plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed...
...never arrived in Teheran. The Shah's birthday party was called off, and 25 Iranian-piloted Thunderbolts, assisted by eight U.S. Air Force planes, began a methodical sweep over the desolate Turkoman steppe. On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran. The peasants went to the spot and there found the bodies of the prince and his two companions...