Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public might be misled into thinking that the Iranian issue had been settled once & tor all. In sober fact, Russia had probably never intended an indefinite military occupation of northern Iran. What she had always wanted was 1) a Government in Teheran amenable to Russian demands, and 2) access to Iranian oil. In the Russo-Iranian treaty Gavam had indicated a high decree of amenability...
...tentatively agreed on a bill, drafted by Committee Chairman Brien McMahon, which set up a control commission of five civilians. Then they tacked on (by a 10-to-1 vote) an amendment by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. It provided for a military board which would have access to all the commission's information and could appeal to the President if anything the civilians did seemed "inimical to the common defense." They also tacked on an amendment by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Hart, adding an advisory board of nine part-time experts to the commission...
Russia could have had complete freedom of access to the Dardanelles. The U.S. and Britain had offered her that at Potsdam, he disclosed, and "to this guarantee I am convinced Turkey would gladly have subscribed. But we were told that this was not enough. Russia must have a fortress inside the Straits from which she could dominate Constantinople...
...Emma Woikin, a young (25), good-looking cipher clerk in the External Affairs Department. She is a Doukhobor from Saskatchewan, of Russian parentage. Said the report: she gave Zabotin "the contents of secret telegrams to which she had access...
...very friendly enemies, Cooper and Chancellor see eye to eye on such pressing postwar issues as free access to the news (which they loudly favor), and the right of the state to help tell the news (which they loudly deny). They hate subsidies, bias and propaganda, all three of which haunt Reuters' past...