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Then Mossadegh had only one powerful friend left. That was Hussein Makki, the No. 2 man in the regime, Mossadegh's personal representative at Abadan, his top vote-getter in Teheran. Makki liked to say that anyone who opposed his boss ought to be killed. Makki was also ambitious. The most conspicuous object in his living room is a six-foot, gilt-framed portrait of his craggily handsome head...
...plan to stave off bankruptcy. Main feature: increase the amount of money in circulation by 20%. He also pointed out that there was no real hope of balancing the books unless Mossy could reopen the source of nine-tenths of Iran's national income: the refinery at Abadan. Schacht added bluntly: Iranians are "lazy," ought to work harder...
When Iran's ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadegh was in the U.S. last year, he met W. (for William) Alton Jones, president of Cities Service Co., the twelfth-biggest U.S. oil company. Three weeks ago, on Mossadegh's personal invitation, "Pete" Jones hustled to Iran, looked over the Abadan refinery, nosed around the oilfields. What was Jones up to? Last week Jones would say only: "My job isn't yet finished...
...teams of free-lance tax gatherers with orders to soak Iran's wealthy landlords and traders for some of the taxes they have never bothered to pay. The tax collectors will get a flat 1% of whatever they bring in. But the biggest source of revenue-the Abadan oil refinery-remained untapped. Without its British managers and technicians, the Iranians simply cannot run it. This week, U.S. Oilman W. (for William) Alton Jones, 61, president of Cities Service Oil Co., flew to Abadan at Mossadegh's special invitation, to see what could be done to get the plant...
...that Mossadegh, the lachrymose Lion of Abadan, controls the Iranian army, as well as the Teheran mobs, the Shah is virtually a prisoner, whom Mossadegh could easily, but probably will not, overthrow...