The 'Big Three' Meet in Tehran - by James Holland
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Where is that same spirit of wartime co-operation and compromise today?
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Stocktrek Images, Inc. ‘I could not admire the arrangements which had been made for my reception after landing in Tehran,’ noted Winston Churchill. ‘As we approached the city the road was lined with Persian cavalrymen every fifty yards, for at least three miles.’ This might have looked impressive but as far as the British Prime Minister was concerned, these mounted men merely alerted any bad elements that someone of high importance was proceeding very slowly down the road, offering almost no protection whatsoever.…
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