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Just when it looked as if no common ground could be found, Anglo-Iranian agreed to send representatives to Teheran for "full and frank discussions." Firebrand Makki cooled off a few degrees, called Anglo-Iranian's gesture "satisfactory." The government was reported ready to postpone the actual take-over of Anglo-Iranian, pending the talks...
Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...
...Teheran, Oilman Fraser agreed to send a representative to confer with the parliamentary oil commission "as a measure of respect to the Imperial Government and the Iranian Parliament." Reports trickled out of Parliament that some members of the commission were counseling coolness, conciliation and delay. The British still hold some cards which, if played wisely, might give Iran pause. In taking over Anglo-Iranian, the Mossadeq government has assured the British of compensation (about 25% of current oil revenues). Iran not only lacks capital to pay this, but probably will not even be able to raise the $60 million needed...
...develop a policy to bring the Middle East into the Western camp, no safe end is in sight to Mohammed Mossadeq's fantastic national adventure. Meanwhile, the only people to profit from the situation will be the Iranian Communists and their Soviet Russian friends. In Teheran last week, at a caviar and vodka garden party at the Russian embassy, guests noticed that Ambassador Ivan Vasilievich Sadchikov was in an unusually good mood, generally seemed the most contented man in sight...
...able to keep the existing wells going, but they do not have the technical knowledge to open new ones; they would be able to maintain only patchwork efficiency at the Abadan refinery, which includes an intricate catalytic cracking plant set up for the British by U.S. engineers. Nor does Teheran have the worldwide sales organization and millions of tons of tankers required to market the product...