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Teheran's new government last week gave its people the first inkling of how much Mohammed Mossadegh's "victory" over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. had cost the country...
...same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste were broke...
...truth is that the quality Audrey brings to the screen is not dependent on her figure, her face, her accent (which is neither quite British nor quite foreign) or even her talent. Belgian-born (of a Dutch mother and an Anglo-Irish father), she has, like all great actresses from Maude Adams to Greta Garbo, the magic ability to bridge the gap between herself and her audience, and to make her innermost feelings instantly known and shared...
...ANGLO-Iranian Oil Co., kicked out of Iran by Mossadegh (TIME, Oct. 8, 1951), now hopes to get back its stake there from the Shah, but is hedging the bet. A director, John Mellor Pattinson, has spent three weeks sniffing for new opportunities in oil-rich Alberta, has worked up plans for Anglo-Iranian's first venture in Canada. The company will also start drilling in Sicily shortly...
Belloc's grandmother came from a noted Anglo-Irish family; his father was a French lawyer; his mother was a distinguished English suffragette. He was born near Paris and, though educated at Oxford, retained his French nationality long enough to be drafted into the French army. At 32 he became a British subject, and later was elected to the House of Commons. Of his nationalistic duality he wrote...