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...days after Rusk's resignation, George McGhee, 39, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, exchanged one of the hottest and broadest portfolios in Washington for appointment as Ambassador to Turkey...
...Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is now running State's German Affairs Bureau...
Fifteen times during the past three weeks, Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee set out on a little ritual. He would proceed to the suite of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, enter, sit down by the Premier's bedside, talk for an hour or two, then depart...
...Walter Reed Hospital or the Shoreham Hotel, whether the Western spokesman was Henry Grady, W. Averell Harriman or Richard Stokes, talking with 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh had already become one of the more futile exercises in modern diplomacy. By last weekend it was increasingly clear that the McGhee talks were no exception. As they ended, Mossadegh still held steadfastly to his old position, the West still held the bag. The Iranian Prime Minister would not let British technicians manage Iran's oil industry; he also asked a wholesale price for his country's oil that both Britain...
Last September, while in London, Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee tried to convey U.S. concern to Whitehall. The British politely pointed out to him that they had long experience in dealing with the Iranians, and that was that. An attempt by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to raise the issue with Foreign Secretary Bevin during the latter's recent visit to New York was equally fruitless. The British Foreign Secretary hinted to Acheson that the Iranians could not be so desperate for money, otherwise they would be more anxious to accept the new terms...