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...past decades; 2 British Socialist advertising of the magic word "nationalization" 3) failure of the U.S. to develop an effective policy in Iran; 4) complete lack of U.S.-British cooperation (TIME, Jan. 8). As usual, the Russians stand to gain from the West's failure: their puppet Tudeh party, officially outlawed, is very active behind the scenes in the drive for nationalization of Iran's oil. Thousands of people ran through Teheran's streets, shouting: "Our oil is nationalized...
Iran is a more tempting mouse. It has a lot of oil (which Russia needs), and it is militarily helpless. The trouble is, however, that Iran's Communist-led Tudeh Party is too weak to win a civil...
...After the Teheran Government of wily, tough Premier Ahmad Gavam reoccupied the northern province of Azerbaijan without interference from Russia (TIME, Dec. 23), Gavam was able to smash the Azerbaijan "Democrats" (Red sympathizers) and also to reduce the Communist-tutored Tudeh party to insignificance. That left the Soviet-Persian oil agreement, signed in April 1946, which could not take effect until the Persian Majlis (parliament) ratified...
Last week the election was still going on. But the Russians were no longer in northern Persia. The Russian-sponsored Tudeh Party had collapsed throughout Persia. Americans were now the vogue. Persians bought $1 million-a-year worth of shabby American secondhand suits. Persian women clamored for stilt-soled shoes and Hollywood hairdos. Sidewalk hawkers shouted "American nylons!" Fishmongers even cried "American fish...
...retrospect, Ambassador Ala seemed U.N.'s first hero for his courageous fight last spring. But Gavam had won the other half of Persia's battle by repressive measures against the Tudeh Party. First Gavam broke last July's bloody strike of Tudeh-led Abadan oil workers. In mid-October, he kicked three Tudeh men out of his Cabinet, then muzzled the Tudeh press. Result : an independent, but not a very democratic, Persia...