Word: abadan
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...willow, pliable when he needs be to fill the job of Tory leader of the House of Lords, but he is also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly superior to any cynical bargain, be it with Moscow or Peking, even when Churchill, the politician...
...bridge of the 18,000-ton tanker Nissho Mam as she steamed into Tokyo Bay stood Captain Tatsuo Nitta, flashing a gold-toothed smile. He had just completed a three-week voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...
...Anglo-Iranian, the Kent plant was the first big milestone on the road back from the catastrophe of expropriation in Iran. Anglo-Iranian lost 77% of its production of crude and 80% of its refinery capacity in the billion-dollar plant at Abadan, largest refinery in the world. Coming on top of damage in Europe during the war, the Abadan loss was such a blow to Anglo-Iranian-as well as to the oil supply of the free world-that the major U.S. oil companies hastily pooled their resources to try to make up the deficit...
...diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...
...thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half." His urgent recommendation: "The U.S. should be prepared, if necessary, to occupy southern Persia and regain possession of [the Abadan oil refinery], preferably at the request of ... a Persian government sympathetic to the Western world." If Britain does not back the U.S., Childs says that the U.S. should act alone...