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...commanding desire for a change," Hopper said, "is in order to make a fresh start in strategic thinking, to undo insofar as possible, the blunders committed at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam." He attributed these mistakes to "untimely export of American good will and superficial understanding of the nature of totalitarian regimes," and added that a "Democratic regime, no matter who the President, would be anchored in the blunders which lost Poland and China to the Free World...
...familiar deep voice of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh poured out from Radio Teheran one afternoon last week. For 90 minutes the wily old man rambled over the 19 months of Britain-Iranian oil negotiations, then reached his climax: "Iran has done her best, but the British government always obstructed a settlement. They [the British] have thus forced Iran to cut relations with them...
...State Department was indeed trying to find some way to extricate the old man. It had drawn up plans to set up a U.S.-dominated international oil company to purchase and market Iran's oil. The new company would advance Teheran about $100 million and accept repayment in Iranian oil. Once oil began to flow, the British-owned Anglo-Iranian would be paid for its expropriated properties with $300 million worth of Iranian oil. At this late date, there was little chance that either Iran or Britain would be interested...
From the U.S. official closest to the Iranian oil crisis for the longest time, Henry Grady, U.S. ambassador to Teheran for 14 months, came an undiplomatically candid comment on the diplomatic break. "Had Britain and the U.S. backed [General Ali] Razmara, the former Iranian Prime Minister who was a friend of the West and who was fighting the nationalization movement, this present situation would not have developed," Grady said in San Francisco. "Nor would Razmara have been assassinated...
While Kennedy usually votes for programs of foreign aid, he also votes to slash their appropriations. He decided to slash E.C.A. aid by 350 million dollars, helped to cut vital Near East aid by 35 million, and blustered on such topics as Teheran and China policy. The Mutual Security Act amendment to donate military equipment to Spanish dictator Franco was sponsored by Congressman Kennedy...