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...Tont Pis." Thus last week ended another chapter in the sorry story of a Western failure in Iran. As the earnest agent of a belated U.S. effort to avert disaster in the oil-rich Middle East, Harriman tried to end the chapter more happily. In five weeks at Teheran, he seemed to have built a bridge of compromise between the moderate proposals of the British and the demands of fanatic Iranian nationalists. The British accepted "in principle" Iranian nationalization of their giant Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. But over the details of the enterprise's future operation there...
...Abadan refinery. Anglophobe Mossadeq agreed to a British boss for the British staff; he balked over Iranians taking orders from Britons. "But you can't run a show that way," cried Stokes. "You can only have one boss." Mossadeq rejected the argument with his favorite French phrase: "Tant pis" (tough luck...
...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
Biggest Catch of all were copies of a Nazi manifesto, so inflammatory that authorities no longer described the suspects vaguely as fifth columnists (as such liable only to deportation) but as outright traitors involved in un caso de pis tola (a case for summary execution...
CHAMPAIGN, III.,--Notre Dame despite its defeat by Southern California, tonight was proclaimed national football champion by Frank G. Dickinson, Assistant Economics Professor at the University of Illinois and author of the Dickinson Football Rating System. The 1938 Dickinson ratings-- Rank Team W L T Pis. 1 Notre Dame 8 1 0 27.72 2 Duke 9 0 0 37.10 3 Tonunessec 10 0 0 26.68 4 So.California 10 0 0 28.71 5 Oklahoma 10 0 038.69 6 Michigan 6 1 1 28.02 7 Minnesota 6 2 0 22.71 8 Texas Christian 10 0 0 22.67 9 Alabama...