Word: teheran
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London (and all Christendom) is newly aware of Islam. The shouts of Teheran mobs, the shot that killed King Abdullah, echo years, the world's chancelleries. As it has for 1,300 years, the riddle of Islam still confronts the West. It stands there, some 300 million strong, not giving an inch from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...week's end, Britain's Lord Privy Seal and new oil negotiator, Richard Stokes, flew into Teheran with four assistants. His government has already expressed its sympathy with Iranian aspirations, but Stokes and Mossadeq will have to agree on: 1) a scheme for joint British-Iranian companies to refine and market the oil; 2) away to split the profits...
...first official move, Stokes lunched at the royal palace, presented the Shah and his consort with overflowing baskets of gladioli, orchids, fruit brought from Britain; Teheran papers promptly saw a favorable omen for the talks. This week, Stokes, who glories in the role of a hardhitting, U.S.-type businessman, will sit down at the conference table with the Iranians. Hovering in the background, ready with soothing words and compromise suggestions, is the one hero of the crisis: tireless W. Averell Harriman. His performance so far: excellent...
...looked as if Averell Harriman might yet do the incredible and straighten out the Iranian oil mess. He was off to a good start. In twelve days on the job in Teheran, including many hours at Premier Mossadeq's bedside, Special Envoy Harriman got an important concession from the Iranians: they were willing to reopen talks with London about oil nationalization. The terms on which the Iranians would talk were not disclosed, but Harriman felt hopeful enough to transmit the offer to London and recommend an immediate conference...
This week, Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison rose in the House of Commons, announced what amounted to a triumph for Conciliator Harriman: the British government was prepared to send a new oil mission to Teheran, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, hard-hitting Socialist industrialist and Minister of Raw Materials...