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Britain's Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, tried in vain to get into Mossadeq's redoubt. He had another note to deliver from the Foreign Office in London. The best he could do was to leave it at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. His Majesty's government insisted that the Shah's government must not unilaterally break its 1933 contract with Anglo-Iranian. London wanted "negotiation to the satisfaction of all concerned," proposed sending a mission to Teheran at once. London said it would bring up the issue before the International Court of Justice at The Hague...
...General Stonewall Jackson (who led the cadets to Richmond in 1861). During World War II, 4,000 of V.M.I.'s 6,000 living graduates were in uniform, and 57 of them rose to general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark L. Ruffner, commander of the 2nd Division (see WAR IN ASIA...
...future. Last week when he gave a luncheon to announce his latest stake in it, some of Wall Street's most potent bankers attended: Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, J. P. Morgan's Henry C. Alexander, National City's Howard C. Shepherd. So did a New Dealer, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, a friend of Spencer's Wyoming days. Spencer's news made both bankers and New Dealer applaud...
With equal urgency, British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, using the same words spoken by Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison in the House of Commons, told Iran's Premier that Britain reserved "the right to act as we see fit to protect British lives and property." This might mean landing British forces in southern Iran. Five British warships were within reasonable range of the troubled area...
...Imagine a wolf, a lamb and a shepherd. The lamb decides to remain neutral between the wolf, which threatens him, and the shepherd, who protects him. He hopes that by doing this the wolf, instead of eating him, will busy himself first of all with the shepherd, or perhaps the shepherd will attack the wolf. By this means the lamb, who still feels that he is not strong enough to act, will gain time. It is a defensible policy...