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Fifteen times during the past three weeks, Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee set out on a little ritual. He would proceed to the suite of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, enter, sit down by the Premier's bedside, talk for an hour or two, then depart...
Whether the setting was Washington, New York or Teheran, the Walter Reed Hospital or the Shoreham Hotel, whether the Western spokesman was Henry Grady, W. Averell Harriman or Richard Stokes, talking with 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh had already become one of the more futile exercises in modern diplomacy. By last weekend it was increasingly clear that the McGhee talks were no exception. As they ended, Mossadegh still held steadfastly to his old position, the West still held the bag. The Iranian Prime Minister would not let British technicians manage Iran's oil industry; he also asked a wholesale...
Sheefteh is the editor of the Nationalist Party newspaper in Tehran, "Bakhtov Emruz," which actively supports Nationalist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Mostafa Alamoti, chief editor of the Tehran independent newspaper, "Dad," is making the visit with his wife...
Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, seemed more confident than Labor had been that something could be worked out. At least there was now a moratorium on nasty British cracks, like Laborite Richard Stokes's recent remark that Mossadegh "wouldn't know how to manage a sweet shop...
Unpredictable, fanatic Premier Mossadegh might not win any popularity polls in the West as the man diplomats most liked to dicker with, but the growing alternative looked worse...