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...April 1946, while Russian troops occupied Persia's northern province of Azerbaijan, Premier Ahmad Gavam notified Ivan V. Sadchikov, Russian Ambassador to Persia, that the Persian Government agreed that the two Governments should establish a joint company "to explore and exploit oil-producing territories" in northern Persia...
Last week (one year behind schedule), Gavam reported on the oil negotiations to the Majlis (Parliament), whose consent is necessary for any foreign exploitation of Persian oil. He clearly implied that the Russian had held a pistol at his head in 1946. Now the pistol was gone, and Persia was sure of U.S. friendship. An emboldened Majlis voted 102-to-2 to declare the Premier's oil negotiations with Russia null & void. The Majlis went on to resolve that Persia would explore and develop her own oil resources, without any foreign assistance. This is not likely to happen...
...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...Assembly committee this week was the 165-page report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) containing two diverging plans. UNSCOP's majority favored partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations, with independence set for Sept. 1, 1949. The minority plan (advanced by India, Persia and Yugoslavia) proposed semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab states within a Palestine federation, in which, because of greater numbers, the Arabs would elect the chief executive. Zionists regarded the majority plan as better than nothing. Arabs denounced both plans, opposed a Jewish state of any kind in Palestine...
Hamid Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia's disappearing 16-year-old brother (TIME, July 7, Sept. 29), was at it again. A week after the student prince materialized in Hollywood (after vanishing from a Washington, D.C. school), he vanished again, this time with brother Mahmoud's Cadillac convertible. Police picked him up in nearby Burbank, Calif., quickly passed him back to Mahmoud, who quickly passed him back to Washington (by air) for a fresh start...