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...insisted that the original Iranian oil nationalization law be accepted by the British in its general terms, without reservation; but he abandoned, temporarily at least, his insistence on the second law, which spells out in nine tough points exactly how nationalization is to be accomplished. Some of the points: Anglo-Iranian to be taken over "immediately"; Anglo-Iranian to pay Iran an extra sum for all the oil it took out of the ground after March 21; the new "National Oil Company" to be operated exclusively by Iranians...
...writes a piece about "the two great countries [the U.S. and Russia, which] have a common boundary"-i.e., the Diomedes Islands off Alaska. Famed Soviet Historian Eugene Tarle sighs that "my mind can conceive no rational excuse for the highly strained relations that have arisen between the two great Anglo-Saxon powers and the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile, Anglo-Iranian announced it would close down the Abadan refinery this week. Official explanation: Abadan's storage tanks were overflowing and production had to stop. Actually, Britain was serving notice that while it would negotiate, it would stand for no more pushing around...
...saved our lives at the risk of their own." She got a quick taste of change at a stopover in Hong Kong. "The place was overflowing with Chinese gold and jewels, and the Asiatic class which these possessions now represented looked confident and opulent in contrast to the threadbare Anglo-Saxons who had only their white skins left...
This month London's Church Times, unofficial voice of the Anglican hierarchy, spoke out in admonition to Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals alike, reasserted the church's traditional balance...