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...TIME readers' nominations for Man of the Year, 14% voted for General MacArthur; 9% for John Foster Dulles; President Truman and General Eisenhower, 4%; Churchill and Senator Estes Kefauver, 3%; Dean Acheson, Senator Paul Douglas and the American Taxpayer, 2^%; Senator Taft, 2%; Senator McCarthy, Premier Mossadegh and John L. Lewis, i%%. The remaining 49^% votes were scattered...
...Majlis met, whereupon partisans of both sides scrapped in the gallery and chased each other through the halls. As soon as soldiers butted them apart, the Deputies in the chamber below began hooting and slamming desks, while outside a gang of Mossadegh mobsters beat on the Majlis gates and screamed, "Death to Mossadegh's opponents." When order was restored, Oppositionist Imami yelled at Mossadegh: "Go on outside and talk to your stabbers." "I will go . . ." said Mossadegh, near tears. "... to hell!" said Imami...
...Mossadegh's No. 2 man, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi, sternly warned Iran's old oil customers (including Great Britain) that they had exactly ten days to resume buying Iranian oil. After that, he implied, Iran would sell to Russia and her satellites. The threat was about as empty as Iran's treasury. The West no longer hangs on Iran...
...house of Parliament, the Majlis, was transformed into one of the strangest lodging houses in history. In one wing, six actors and three actresses rehearsed a French play called Robe Rouge for presentation in the Majlis gardens. The production was originally scheduled for Teheran's Saadi Theater, but Mossadegh's nationalist hoodlums, suspecting something leftist about the theater, had wrecked it. The Majlis, traditional refuge from political persecution, was the only safe place left for the players...
Reuters Correspondent Leopold Herman, veteran of ten years' service in Iran and a newsman with a special reputation among his fellow correspondents for painstaking accuracy, was ordered from the country by the government last week. The charge: false reporting. Said the government: Herman's story that Mossadegh recently left the Majlis chamber under armed guard because of the mob outside was not true. Replied Herman: all the correspondents on the spot had seen the guard. Herman is the fourth correspondent who has been ousted from Iran in six months...