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...tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel New Weston, the Iranian delegation unpacked its long winter underwear. They were prepared to fight it out on Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh's line if it took all summer-and next winter too. But it might not take that long. Things looked better, though not perfect, as the UNO Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding...
Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh was back from Moscow, where his gentle dickering had yielded no assurances of Russian departure. The March 2 deadline in the Anglo-Russian-Iranian treaty continued to be honored in the breach. Premier Gavam could not defend his country or the world's peace. He waited uneasily for this week's showdown meeting of UNO's Security Council in New York...
...Indiscretions of Ahmadi. Iran's young Shah Mohamed Reza apparently was less cautious than Gavam. War Minister General Sepahbod Amir Ahmadi had an interview with the Shah and then blood-&-thundered to U.S. newsmen that Iranians would fight any overt act of the Russians. Foreign Office officials shook their heads in disapproval. "How silly" said one. "The Russians can be here in one hour." To the question: "Will Iran really fight?" the answer was an Oriental shrug of the shoulders. Two days later, red-faced General Ahmadi repudiated his words, blamed them on a "faulty translation...
...friendly" government in Teheran, for instance, would not appeal to UNO. At week's end the Russians were reported asking for a token of his cooperation in the form of oil concessions in northern Iran; if Gavam gave in, Moscow might decide that the Red Army's presence was unnecessary. Then Britain and the U.S. would have to decide whether to bring before UNO a charge that Russia had coerced Iran into "friendship." If Iran was a sample, disputes before UNO were likely to partake of the bewildering complexity of the British divorce courts rather than the classic...
...Moscow, the "elucidation" proceeded. Susceptible Premier Gavam might be willing, but his parliamentary majority (52-to-51) was too weak for far-reaching concessions. Any plan to abrogate Iranian sovereignty over Azerbaijan would almost certainly be repudiated by a hostile House. In vain Prince Firouz, Director of Propaganda, soothingly explained the Soviet presence in troubled areas as a "friendly gesture." Angry deputies called it "an act of aggression," "a threat of another world...