ese naval officer said, met with two rebuffs as it sought to participate in the celebrations at the time of the wedding.
Moscow, he said, first proposed to send M. Maxim Litvinoff, former Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar, to Teheran with an escort of 60 Soviet military aeroplanes. The Iranian Government turned down the proposed visit pointing out that the Teheran aerodrome was "too small" to accommodate 60 aeroplanes.
The U.S.S.R. then said it would like to present 36 wagon loads of fresh flowers, weighing 20,000 tons, to decorate Teheran. This offer was again declined on the ground that under a new Iranian law planes could not be imported from abroad.
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