Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy chairman, Fraser planned the merger which combined Britain's two largest oil distributors into one company, Shell-Mex & BP (for "British Petroleum") Ltd., to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell Oil Co. products in Britain. When...
Iran. "On the basis of my studies and sojourn in Persia, I am convinced that Persia is now entering a period of chaos and anarchy . . . From the times of Darius and Cyrus, Persia has known only peace through a strong man ... To prate of democracy to the Persians is like advocating prohibition to the denizens of hell." Childs believes that "the money we are pouring into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half...
...track. Nebraska-born, Stoddard joined U.P. as a $30-a-month station helper 36 years ago, has been with U.P. ever since, except for stints in both wars. A colonel in World War II, he served as adviser to the Iranian National Railway, which helped carry supplies from the Persian Gulf to Russia. In his 3½ years as U.P. president, the board has let him run things pretty much...
Contrary to widely accepted reports that Russia wants Persian oil for their own mobilization effort, Frye said that they have "plenty of oil to exploit in the Soviet bloc," and that if they get control of Iran they will undersell Western oil companies and thus, "use this oil as a lever to bring economic pressure" on India, China, Indo China and other nations in that region...
...typical situation which the Reds exploit masterfully: When the Russians moved into northern Iran in 1941, many Persian landlords fled, leaving the land to their Kurdish tenants. In 1946, when the Russians pulled out and the landlords returned, they demanded five years' back rent from tenants. The tenants had no choice but to sell, pawn, borrow and pay up. There are no more bitter people in Iran today. That is why a Westerner who has been in the area for 30 years says: "If the Russians came back tomorrow, 95% of the population would stand beside the road...