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...room done in pastel green, and is equipped with a fireplace, gold draperies, bookshelves and porcelain figurine table lamps, a bedroom, a kitchen and a sunroom. Nevertheless, Harry Truman, one of the healthiest Presidents in history, simply refused to get sick. Except for a one-week visit by Mohammed Mossadegh last year, the suite remained empty...
...breezeless afternoon last week, Mohammed Mossadegh's advisers sat around the boss's iron cot on the balcony of his yellow brick house in Teheran. They had gathered to face the facts: the country was disintegrating economically and politically. Husky Firebrand Hussein Makki spoke up: "My dear Pishva [leader], unless you control the army, you will have no security." The group agreed that the Pishva should ask the Shah for control of the army...
...days later, 7 2-year-old Mossadegh faced 32-year-old Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Iran's well-meaning but weak monarch. He began naming the ministers for his new cabinet (TIME, July 21). "What about the War Minister?" the Shah asked. Replied Mossadegh: "I will take charge of the War Ministry, Sire...
Last week, as 72-year-old Mossadegh was redesignated Premier by the newly elected Majlis (he had to resign formally and then be reappointed), the "but" kept trailing after him. The Majlis had overwhelmingly voted him in, but only after electing an anti-Mossadegh speaker. The 57-member Senate concurred, 14 to 1, but only because the majority present in the half-empty chamber sat on its hands during the balloting. The young Shah pulled wires to get Mossadegh back in, but lectured him, during a private luncheon, on the urgent need for restoring economic order. The people supported...
Iran couldn't see any other leader save Mossadegh, but having chosen him it wondered what to do next. Mossadegh himself was uneasy. This week, he appeared before a closed session of the Majlis and demanded unlimited powers for the next six months to deal with Iran's economic crisis. The Majlis must say yes, he added, with no buts about...