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...overthrown. We shall stay here until this is achieved." A tray of dirty dishes and a thermos bottle perched on a nearby window ledge. Servants strolled through the building bearing food and bedrolls for the 30 editors and Deputies who had taken refuge in the Majlis from the nationalist mob...
...Iran and a newsman with a special reputation among his fellow correspondents for painstaking accuracy, was ordered from the country by the government last week. The charge: false reporting. Said the government: Herman's story that Mossadegh recently left the Majlis chamber under armed guard because of the mob outside was not true. Replied Herman: all the correspondents on the spot had seen the guard. Herman is the fourth correspondent who has been ousted from Iran in six months...
...students and unemployed, led by the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party, invaded Majlis Square, shouting "Death to Mossadegh!" They were confronted by 5,000 police and soldiers, reinforced by 5,000 nationalist hoodlums. Stones flew, bayonets flashed and tear-gas shells popped for five hours; when the Tudeh mob finally broke, a police colonel had been killed, eight of the rioters lay dead, and hundreds more were under arrest. While the police looked the other way, Mossadegh's huskies, led by a cheery thug nicknamed "Brainless," methodically sacked two Tudeh newspaper offices, then systematically did the same to seven anti...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...