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Then, in true thriller fashion, U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady rode to the rescue-or temporary rescue. He sent a go-between to the bedside of frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who was so weak that the doctors gave him a transfusion (seeing that it was American plasma, Mossadeq cracked:"Do you think it will make me more reasonable?"). On Grady's plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging...
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...torrent of anti-British, anti-U.S. feeling, his successor, Mohammed Mossadeq, prepared to implement a bill which...
Back in Teheran again, he started work on the Mohammed Mossadeq cover story (TIME, June 4). One of his jobs was to check on doubtful stories that get back to the U.S. Among them: the false rumor that mysterious U.S. oil millionaires were dickering for spots in Iran's oil industry, if & when it were nationalized...
...British colony's Teheran Club to be handed a similar order. Next day, the British ambassador demanded an explanation. He was told that a special press commission had tried and convicted Delmer of "vilifying and defaming the country," Nicholson of "changing the truth." Explained Prime Minister Mossadeq: "Of course, the two correspondents were not present at this trial, but I have no doubt that the verdict was amply justified...