Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Banyans. On Wednesday, as the British and French foreign ministers spelled out their policies at a NATO council meeting in Paris, the Suez committee sent Iran's Ali Ardalan to make another pitch to Nasser. "A lovely talk," was all the Iranian would say afterward. At his press conference in Washington President Eisenhower said: "The U.S. is committed to a peaceful solution of this [Suez] problem." When the Cairo negotiators met a fourth time, they debated 105 minutes before breaking up in futility. Menzies was reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained...
...deadlock went feverishly on in Washington, where, without bothering about the sacred protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve Alphand rushed from the airport to State Department consultations with Dulles. In Cairo the U.S.'s Loy Henderson, reportedly with the support of the Iranian and Ethiopian representatives, pressed Menzies for one more try at compromise with Nasser. After a heart searching discussion the committee agreed to ask Nasser for one more session. A new press officer announced that "the discussions have not yet reached their final stage and are still going...
Mohammed Mossadegh, as weird and wondrous a character as ever stole a headline, was swept into office as Iran's Premier in 1951 on a promise to nationalize the sprawling British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. He accomplished his purpose in a dervishlike vortex of tantrums, sulks, fainting spells, mopes and well-publicized weeping that made even readers of Lil Abner forget Daisy Mae. In doing so, he brought his country to bankruptcy. At one point in his frenzied career, Mossy succeeded in frightening the Shah clean out of his own country...
...when Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com pany, the Western powers, faced with a similar threat, applied economic sanctions...
Last week the first visiting chief of state to be housed within the Kremlin became as well the first to leave Moscow without putting his name to a single agreement of any kind. "If the Iranian government has undertaken measures for its defense," he said, "they have been dictated by the needs of state on the basis of past experience." At the last minute the Shah even refused to put his name on an innocuous, Russian-prepared joint statement of good will on the ground that it would be improper, since he is only "chief of state...