Word: teheran
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...last month. Colonel Hashem Sepahpur of the Teheran military governor's office ran into an old acquaintance, an ex-army captain named Ali Abbasi. "Salaam," cried out the colonel in greeting. Ali, a frail, limping man of about 40, responded with a cordial "Salaam," but hurried on, nervously clutching a worn leather suitcase. "I'm going to the doctor now," he called back...
...Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador Loy Henderson in Teheran) as 10% engineering, 15% negotiation, 75% ministering to emotional fevers. Old hands at the State Department appraise it as the finest one-man job since Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty...
...before this Administration," these checks and balances were upset by the expansion of federal power, both as a result of war and of "the various infections of socialism." One kind of balance was upset, for example, by "unrestrained presidential actions" that produced such highhanded executive agreements as Yalta and Teheran. "Our tacit alliance with Soviet Russia spread Communism over the earth...
...total loss; the U.S. found itself participating for the first time in one of the world's richest oilfields. More than that, a strategic chunk of the globe's surface was made safer from Communist penetration. Last week, in the cool garden of Elah-yeh Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula had at last been found by which a combine of eight of the world's largest oil companies (TIME, Aug. 9) will operate Iran...
...remarks were meant, and everywhere taken, as a clear slap at Russia and a friendly hand to the West. Predicted Teheran's influential newspaper Kayhan: "Before long the Iranian government will clarify its policy with respect to the two conflicting power blocs, and will express its preference for the bloc that holds views similar to this country...