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...mailed businesslike notices to the 300 remaining British staff members of the oil company: "[By] Thursday, Oct. 4, 1951 . . . you are required to have left this country." Iranian tanks clanked on to Abadan island, and Iranian troops stood guard at the refinery gates, barring the Britons from entrance. Iranian spokesmen vowed they would blow up the refinery if the British made any move to send in armored forces...
...with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling...
Walkout in Reverse. On the appointed day, right on schedule, the spokesmen for 49 nations of the non-Communist world walked one by one to a bright yellow modernistic table on the stage and, using gold pens, put their signatures to the peace treaty. Last, clad in the only morning coat and striped trousers at the conference, came 72-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan. His face set, he scrawled his name in Japanese characters. A decade after Pearl Harbor, a generation after Japan began its career of aggression in Manchuria, almost a century after Commodore Matthew Perry opened...
...buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them into court." If the jury found McCarthy's charges untrue, he would resign from the Senate, said he, provided that, if the jury agreed with him, "that whole motley crowd will resign...
...Armed Services Committees took up the Administration's request for $8.5 billion for foreign military and economic aid, from which the House had cut $1 billion (some $700 million from economic aid, $300 million from the military). The Senate committees pretty much agreed with that reduction. Administration spokesmen protested, but Georgia's George expressed the sentiments of a large part of the Senate: "We ought to cut out economic aid in Europe . . . Those countries already are up to about 144% of their prewar production capacity. If they can't stand on their own feet now, there...