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Within minutes after the British made the offer, the Iranian delegation left the meeting room, phoned frail, ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadeq. Thirty minutes later, Britain's chief negotiator, Basil Jackson, looking pale and strained, walked out of the conference room and said to waiting newsmen: "Well, talks are broken off, gentlemen. They refused to accept our suggestions under any circumstances...
...Mossadeq's Victory. U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady, who had tried his somewhat naive best to mediate, retired in wounded pride to await another chance. No one believed it would come. Bands of Mossadeq's burliest. National Frontists charged into Anglo-Iranian's Teheran offices, ripped down the company signs, shouted: "We nationalize...
After the carefully organized spree, Mossadeq summoned the Majlis to endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
...Mossadeq, an honest man at the head of a largely incompetent and corrupt government, obviously could not run the oilfields, wanted British technicians to stay on and do the job for him. Having expropriated the British, the Iranians now childishly blamed the British for not assisting at their own expropriation. Said professorial little Allahyar Saleh, chairman of the parliamentary Nationalization Board: "We hope the foreign employees will not leave their jobs. If they do so, Iran will disclaim responsibility for the disruption of the flow of oil to the West...
...give Russia no excuse to march, but Russia might win without marching. Iran was at the point of bankruptcy. On July 1, the 60,000 oil workers would have to be paid. No one knows where the money would come from. The immediate danger in Iran: unemployment, riots that Mossadeq might not be able to control. Waiting for just such a chance: Iran's Tudeh (Communist) party, the best organized political group in Iran. Said a Cassandric London Foreign Office official: "Once again, Russia may get a satellite without moving a single...