Word: mossadegh
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...angry note warning the British embassy to cease "open interference" in Iran's affairs or suffer consequences. The British in a huffy reply refused to receive Iran's note; the Iranians in turn refused to receive the British message refusing the Iranian note. Upshot: Premier Mossadegh ordered Great Britain to shut her nine Iranian consulates within nine days...
...drops tears as easily as Mossadegh. His Columbia recording is flooded with them, on both sides. Ray admits that "I don't have a voice, I've got a style. I can't read music. I don't even like to listen to my own voice." In night club performances, his stentorian sobbing sometimes so unhinges him that he has to rush offstage to compose himself...
...World Bank offered to put up the money to reopen Iran's oilfields and refineries. Iran simply had to agree to a three-way profit splits-with equal shares for the bank, Iran, and for the oil purchasers (principally the dispossessed Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.). But Premier Mohammed Mossadegh wants no deals involving Anglo-Iranian; he gave the bank little welcome...
Uncle Sam tried another scheme to save Mossadegh from himself. Washington offered Iran $24 million in U.S. Point Four aid, plus another (estimated) $50 million for guns, planes and tanks. In return, Mossadegh had to agree, by the terms of the Mutual Security Act, that Iran would contribute to the "defensive strength of the free world." Again Mossy balked; after some frenzied haggling the U.S. emerged with a limp victory. It won a letter from Mossadegh reaffirming Iran's adherence to the U.N. charter; on that basis he would get the $24 million. Negotiations over the military aid continued...
...Since Mossadegh's rise, U.S. correspondents have been swarming over the Near and Middle East. Their general consensus is that...