Word: mossadegh
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...considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history to have been raised up by the people"; 3) Chiang Kai-shek (who has traveled both high and low in the Justice's esteem) is the symbol of a tired, failure-marked revolution...
Iran's wily Premier Mohammed Mossadegh gave a glaring example of this technique. He boastfully accepted the prospect of national bankruptcy involved in his stubborn refusal to negotiate with the British on compensation for oil nationalization. But he expected the U.S. to bail him out when the going got tough. A month ago he wrote a threatening letter to President Eisenhower...
...pretense. They wrote as if the Big Three conference in Washington was really called just to force the British imperialists to lift their oil blockade; it was learned from "travelers approached unofficially in Europe" that the U.S. would soon have new proposals for the nation to spurn. Premier Mossadegh, alas, knew better, and as a result was laid up for a "threeday rest." He had got Eisenhower's firm rejection of his plea for "effective economic assistance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Cried one of his aides: "If Churchill himself had written it, he would not have used stiffer or sterner...
...years Mossadegh had refused to deal with the British, sure that the U.S. would back him in the end, if only to save Iran from the Russians. Now, the Eisenhower Administration had come around to the thesis that further economic aid would only postpone Mossadegh's inevitable day of reckoning. Angrily, the pro-government newspaper Khabar cried: "We can see dirty hands stretched out from under a Point Four cover trying to rule us by dollar . . . The U.S. must know that we won't allow Yankees to take the evil British place." Extremists would surely demand a break...
...Tudeh infiltration of Mossadegh's government is now so deep that Communist agents can, in some cases, set government policy. Said a Westerner: "We aren't going to have a Communist coup d'état here. There will be nothing violent about it. We are just going to wake up one morning and say to ourselves: 'Good Lord! We have a pro-Tudeh government!' Then we are going to ask ourselves when did it happen-last night? Yesterday? Last week? A month ago? And we are not going to be able to answer...