Word: teheran
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...Britain still hoped that the longer the waiting went on, and Mossadegh's troubles at home multiplied, the sooner would Mossadegh seek a way to get oil flowing to the West and money flowing into Iran's treasury. Iranian oil was trickling, but not to the West. Teheran announced that "with God's help," and no foreign engineers, it had started operating part of the Abadan refinery...
...there was no moratorium on unrest in Teheran...
Last week, torn by Red agitation, Teheran University shut down indefinitely, and police barred the doors. In another part of the city, 500 anti-Communist students from Alborz (formerly American) College marched on the headquarters of the Communist Partisans of Peace, along the way clashed violently with 500 proCommunists. Ten people were injured...
...champagne-flavored, poker-table good fellowship of midwar, the problem of postwar Germany did not seem to confound Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Over after-dinner liqueurs one night at Teheran they jauntily planned the Reich's future. "The world must be made safe for at least 50 years," remarked Churchill. "There will have to be certain measures of control. I would forbid them all aviation, civil and military, and I would forbid the General Staff system...
...eight years after Teheran, developments in Germany were showing how different it had become-different in a way Churchill had not meant. All thought of barring Germany from the club for 50, 25 or even 10 years had disappeared; the big players were stumbling all over each other to offer Germany chips and a seat...