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...seemed readier last week to make a deal with Britain than he had at any time in the last six months. Yet he still talked about $150 million, with no strings attached, as his price for reopening negotiations. U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton did not think Britain ought to pay that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further concessions to Mossadegh. By week's end London was still standing pat on its previous offer (to buy Iranian oil now in storage tanks, price...
Mohammed Mossadegh, just about the last man standing between his country and the Reds, last week tried to take his country two steps away from Communism. The first was a little step. The unpredictable Premier called in British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton to discuss once more the possibility of a settlement with the British. Then, while Mossadegh waited for London's response (certain to be hedged with suspicious reservations), he decreed one of the most far-reaching rural reforms ever proclaimed by any government. It was more thoroughly spelled out than Egypt's (see above...
Other resolutions urged a better program of race relations, denounced UMT, mixed marriages with Roman Catholics, corruption and other laxities in the U.S. Government. Said the Rev. James W. Middleton of Shreveport, La.: "One shudders to think of the delicately balanced policies and decisions of far-reaching moment to the world in an hour of crisis in the hands of Bourbonized judgment...
...Because she's simply destroying me, the little tart," Mr. Middleton sang out in indignation. "I can't sleep at night any more when I think of her," he said. "In a week or two I'll even be obsessed...
...none of your damned business." Arthur Middleton laughed. "But things are very different now, aren't they, to when we first went out in London...