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...Teheran, New York Timesman Michael Clark, 32, son of Freda Kirchwey, editor-publisher of the Nation, was called on the carpet by Iran's Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi. He clutched a copy of the Times containing a Clark dispatch which said that Premier Mossadegh's "remarkable go-to-o vote of confidence in the Majlis" on his return from the U.S. was helped by "incipient terrorism, i.e., the threat of assassination held over Mossadegh's opponents." Cried Fatemi: "Intolerable insults against the government...
Kids on bikes and men in loudspeaker-equipped trucks toured Teheran urging everyone to get on one of the government's 150 free buses and go out to the airport. Mossadegh was coming home...
Reasonable Latitude. The legend that he tried to block the Normandy invasion at the Churchill-Stalin-F.D.R. meeting in Teheran he brands as completely false. He backed the plan to the hilt. Nor, says Churchill, did he,try for a Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude...
Whether the setting was Washington, New York or Teheran, the Walter Reed Hospital or the Shoreham Hotel, whether the Western spokesman was Henry Grady, W. Averell Harriman or Richard Stokes, talking with 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh had already become one of the more futile exercises in modern diplomacy. By last weekend it was increasingly clear that the McGhee talks were no exception. As they ended, Mossadegh still held steadfastly to his old position, the West still held the bag. The Iranian Prime Minister would not let British technicians manage Iran's oil industry; he also asked a wholesale...
...Iran that there would be plenty for all. Instead, the loss of the $4,000,000 monthly oil revenue has brought Iran's government near to bankruptcy, its currency near to worthlessness, and the long-unpaid civil servants to the verge of striking. At the present rate, the Teheran government has only enough money left for another month. After that, it might even have to sell the crown jewels...