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Thunder on the Right. Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi...
...debate raged on. At week's end the State Department issued the Acheson report (see INTERNATIONAL) which would eventually vest primary control in UNO. Senators were in a tailspin. Hastily they withdrew into their chambers to think it all over again, while Mr. Vandenberg buckled down to write another amendment defining the functions of the military...
...Three met the deadline. The last G.I. quit by Jan. 1, the last Tommy before midnight on March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...
...produced a compromise which both London and Moscow would accept. Vishinsky was willing to drop his charges against Britain-provided that this Russian retreat was not mentioned in the Council's official resolution. Bevin took a long, hard look at the record, decided it spoke for itself, and withdrew his demand for an explicit "not guilty." The final statement, accepted over much relieved smiling and handshaking, merely informed the world that a debate had taken place...
...result of the charges, Van Alstyne, who had planned to run for governor of New Jersey on the Republican ticket, withdrew...