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...next victorious nation is France, a little too slick and suave to defeat honest, persevering Anglo Saxons, as the Scarlet Pimpernel and countless Napoleonic pictures show. But they always beat the rest of Europe, and delight in thrashing picturesque Arabs. After the French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...
...companies have formed a combine to market Iran's oil, in expectation of an early solution to the country's oil troubles. Stock in the group is held 40% by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., 40% by five U.S. firms operating in the Middle East-Standard Oil (N.J.), Gulf Oil, the Texas Co., Standard Oil of California, Socony-Vacuum Oil-and 20% by French and Royal Dutch Shell...
...Britain should give Moscow a solemn warning: "That in the event of aggression [against any of the NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left...
...Find technicians-not Anglo-Iranian-to operate the new company...
...getting cooperation from the U.S. and Britain, who after three years are now, for a change, working together. Brit ain sent 16 hand-picked diplomats to Teheran; the mission showed none of the oldtime superciliousness, and impressed Zahedi. In London, the oil world's Big Eight-Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch Shell, Compagnie Française des Pétroles, New Jersey Standard, Socony, Texaco, Cali fornia Standard and Gulf-were secretly hammering out a tentative agreement to market Iran's oil through an international consortium. In Washington, the National Security Council directed the Attorney General to grant...