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...daddy of all the troubles, long underestimated Mr. Mossadeq of Iran, sat in Room 1619 of New York Hospital's George F. Baker Pavilion, while U.N. officials, Asiatic friends and U.S. diplomats tiptoed to his bedside. Though he had won a spectacular reputation for fainting at appropriate moments, he was pronounced in good health by U.S. doctors. After that, he quietly moved himself to the Ritz Tower. He was in New York to tell the U.N. Security Council (and a nationwide TV audience) that it had no business interfering with Iran's decision to kick out the Anglo...
...green lawn of his waterfront home near the refinery, K.B. waved one more goodbye to his boys, a glass of Scotch held firmly in his hand as the ship steamed by. "Mossadeq," he said bitterly, "has not only dug Persia's grave, but he's thrown the Iranians into...
...Hospital. If this was true, Mossadeq and his people seemed willing to take the risks. On the eve of his departure for New York, the emotional Premier faced a cheering Majlis and-collapsing into sobs-announced his plan for dealing with the British at U.N. "It was to serve world peace that we took this historical step," he proclaimed. In a final burst of tears and cheers, he stumbled to his seat and collapsed. At week's end, having bypassed Manhattan's great hotels and reserved a suite for himself at New York Hospital, the Premier emplaned...
Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who frequently bursts into tears or faints, is nevertheless powerful enough to keep the Middle East in turmoil. But as he arrived in the U.S. last week, to continue the battle against Britain before the U.N., Manhattan's jeering, tabloid Daily News greeted him in characteristic style: WEEPER MOSSY HERE TODAY FOR U.N. SHOW...
From Teheran came reports that Mossadeq himself would fly to the Council meeting, to argue, and probably to weep and faint, in defense of his government's reckless course. Possession (in the old saying, nine points of the law) was on his side...