Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...
Added Morrison in a noteworthy gesture of conciliation: "We have every sympathy with the natural desire of the Persian people to control their own mineral resources. . . What we have asked is that agreements freely entered into . . . should not be broken unilaterally...
...from San Francisco, includes among its 16,000 population two notable linguistic groups: the sardine fishermen, who speak Portuguese, and the U.S. Army and Air Force men, who speak in many tongues-Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Persian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Last week 190 new officers and men arrived in town. Within eleven months, most of them will also be speaking new languages with rapid-fire fluency...
...negotiators had walked into the Teheran meeting room with a highly reasonable offer: the British would accept, almost without qualification, the principle of nationalizing Anglo-Iranian. They suggested this method of procedure: Britain would give up all its Iranian assets (worth about $1 billion) to an Iranian-owned Persian National Oil Co. In turn, the new company would contract with an operating concern to manage production. The operating concern would be directed by a joint British-Iranian board. Final item: Britain would pay Iran $28 million immediately, pay an additional $8,400,000 monthly until the new agreement was concluded...
This week twelve fully laden tankers lay in the hot, bustling Persian Gulf port of Abadan, unable to move because Teheran insisted that the tanker captains sign receipts saying they owed the "Iranian National Oil Co." for their cargoes. Ten more days of this and Abadan's storage facilities would overflow, the world's largest refinery would have to shut down...