EVIDENCE OF RUSSIA STILL IN PERSIA
Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, .Tune 23. The Russians still controlled the airport at Pahlevi and objeeted to Ameriean piloted aircraft landing there, said a Persian Foreign Aftairs offieial according to the Associated Press Teheran correspondent. A scheduled flight to Pahlevi yesterday was therefove cancelled by Persian Airwavs which is the new subsidiary of Trans-world Airlines. . Meanwhile Colonel Sexton, Ameriean attaehe at Teheran, has returned from Tabriz and reported that, after flying to Tabriz, he and three aides, ineluding Captain Archie Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, were unexplainedlv imprisoned there for eight hours by Azerbaijan democrats. America is protesting to the Persian Government.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1946, Page 5
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