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...room left for maneuver and compromise had almost vanished. Now, even if Mossadeq wanted to, and he didn't, he dared not back down. Nationalization was still a highly popular slogan in Iran. The Communists-inspired Tudeh Party had easily whipped up 10,000 demonstrators in Teheran to shout "Death to Truman" and "Death to [U.S. Ambassador Henry] Grady." At the first sign of government weakness, the extremists would try to take over. But if the government didn't back down, its essential oil revenues would dry up and chaos would take over...
...show that he was not interfering in Iran's affairs; the Iranian press promptly attacked him for his noninterference (Iranians want the U.S. to put pressure on the British to meet Mossadeq's demands). The incident proved an important point: no matter how loudly Iranian politicos shout against foreign intervention, they would welcome U.S. intervention if they considered it in the country's favor...
...Come." One Indian newspaper has called Bhave "the Saint Paul of constructive work." Wherever he goes, roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
...daily auto rides, noted that he always slowed down at the school corner on the edge of town just before turning into the highway. They rented an old house across from the school. They paid a pumpkinseed vendor to stand beside a tree at the turn and shout "Viva Villa!"-once if the general rode in the front seat, twice if he rode in back...
...only way to get rid of the raw material out of which the Communists distill their conception of America is to shout louder than the Communists about injustices and persecutions, even when they are practiced on people who may be guilty of crimes. If we begin to associate "Communist cause" with "bad cause" we shall lose much of our capacity for self-improvement and default the propaganda war to the who have no real interest in self-improvement...