... Foreign Secretary, declared yesterday at Manchester. He said we had proposed an Anglo-Russian alliance with Persia. The Persian Government had accepted in principle. While bombers from the Middle East were bombing Italy planes from England were bat,- tering ...

... there can be no truce nor compromise. It is his destruction or ours. Mr. Eden revealed that Britain had suggested to the Persian Government that they should sign a treaty of alliance with the Soviet Government and ourselves. They had already accepted this ...