Word: deq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exceedingly happy," Iran's young Shah cabled 72-year-old Premier Mossa-deq in New York, "to felicitate and congratulate you on your success in the oil dispute . . . We also would be happy and delighted to hear of your state of health." Mossadeq's much-discussed health was improving (see MEDICINE) almost as fast as his reputation as a politician...
South African Author Oliver Walker, commenting on the South African Negroes' many fine qualities, has added that the whites "will make of them a hard, cruel people in the end." This is happening now. deq was a slave to his own rash measures and a prisoner of Iranian extremists...
Britain promptly accepted. When several Iranians walked into Premier Mossa-deq's Teheran house to bring him word of the decision, they found him sleeping calmly while his cabinet sat by his couch, wrestling with the complications of nationalization. Awakened and given the news, he said flatly he would reject the court's ruling. This week President Truman sent Mossadeq a personal letter urging him to accept the court's decision and offering to send his top diplomatic troubleshooter, W. Averell Harriman, to Iran...