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...appeared to be a demand for $505 .million in unreported foreign exchange and $15 million in allegedly evaded income taxes (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week the President's experts explained that this was not a final reckoning. The implication was that the tin companies, if they agree to dicker instead of fighting the regime by litigation and fomenting embargoes abroad, might still wind up with some cash compensation for their shareholders (including the U.S. citizens who reportedly own 26% of Patino Mines & Enterprises stock...
Unpredictable, fanatic Premier Mossadegh might not win any popularity polls in the West as the man diplomats most liked to dicker with, but the growing alternative looked worse...
...Matter of Terms. Both the Iranians and the British wanted to negotiate, but on different terms. The British wanted to send a government delegation, obviously intending to dicker over Iran's legal right to nationalize the oil fields. The Iranian government wanted to talk only to Anglo-Iranian company officials and only about how the company could help the Iranians take over. Mossadeq's government issued a virtual ultimatum to the British officials, asking them to help the Iranians and get ready to do it within five days...
...theocrats tried other emergency action during the week. They were reported sending a truce mission to dicker with the slowly advancing Chinese. They also cabled a petition to the U.N. The petition flatly rejected Communist claims of suzerainty over Tibet, contended that Tibet had "complete independence" from the time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations...
...pretty clear idea of what I'd be in there for. And although I admit that there are times when I could cheerfully hospitalize your typewriter-pecking hoodlums with a double whammy from Fowler's English Usage, I don't really have much cause to dicker. You've got a dead eye for an angle and stone the crows* if we don't get our one-and-a-tanner's worth...