Word: brinton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brinton is sure Mossadegh will hate to do this. "He is an intellectual, "and if he gives up now, he will feel he has not acted according to conscience." Worse, the Middle-Eastern effendi or upper class, of which he is a member, has built up a tremendous reservoir of inferiority feelings towards the West...
...final possibility is for extremist effendi reactionaries to oust Mossadegh by some coup. "If the effendi can do this." Brinton says, "They will almost certainly re-establish good relations with the West, realizing this is probably the only way they will be able to gain a sure lease on life for themselves...
Anti-European isolationism is a possible way out, Brinton believes; "History shows the Japanese doing just this from 1611 to 1833, and the Chinese the same thing for over two centuries. If they cannot run Abadan's refineries themselves, therefore, the Iranians may very well let it go to rust...
...Brinton suggests that the ensuing losses of all revenues may well mean no more to Iran's economy than tower ears and luxuries for the wealthy. "The benefits from these revenues have net gone down the class scale, and the masses' standards will be little affected in their absence...
Great skill will be needed if the Iranians are to tread this isolationist path, and Mossadegh, Brinton thinks, is not the man to do the treading--his head is likely to roll long before...