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...these signs, 74-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, after 81 days in jail, was in his best fighting trim. As Premier, he had stood off the British Empire from his bedroom; lying languidly on his iron bed, he had dangled and defied coveys of U.S. diplomats; on the rostrum, shaking, sighing and crying, he had stirred street mobs to frenzy. Now he had taken his act to court...
Intermission. The charge against Mossadegh: plotting to overthrow Iran's constitutional government. The crime is punishable by death, but in Iran it is not customary to execute convicted men over...
...court convened, and Mossadegh quickly went on the offensive, challenging the military tribunal's competence. Asked to identify himself, he cried, "I am the legal Premier of Iran!" And he soon launched into a filibuster that had everything in it but Huey Long's recipe for potlikker. When the chairman of the five-man court gently suggested that Mossadegh was wandering from the point, he cried: "Kill me! I'll submit...
...upstairs and the Colonel Blimps. The former have the usual Socialist view of the U.S. and the Colonels are of even less help. They resent the fact that the Americans have taken over the power if not the glory that was the Empire's. They wanted to settle Mossadegh with gunboats and Naguib with the Hussars...
...Asked the U.N. to oust Mossadegh...