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...worst, if disorders flare up in Iran as a result of nationalization, the Russians may intervene, grab the oil, even unleash World War III. The Russians would not necessarily have to use the Red army to move into Iran; the northern border province of Azerbaijan (which the Russians tried to annex in 1946) might be used by Moscow to set up a "native Iranian" Communist regime...
...Such induced tuberculosis is mild at first and may stay dormant for years, then flare up as a serious disease...
...Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution (U.S., Britain, France and Turkey) made it clear that they only wanted to postpone the Hula project until Syrian interests could be safeguarded. This week, Israeli tractors were...
...Loophole for Hope. The assassination of Razmara and fanatic threats of other killings would not have had so spectacular an effect on the Majlis if anti-British feeling had not been smoldering for years in Iran. It began to flare two years ago when Sir William Fraser, board chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which has a concession for all oil production in southern Iran), offered to double the royalties paid to the Iranian government...
...epidemic appears annually about this time but the flare-up this time is "far more severe than most," according to Cass...