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...Iranian Oil Anthem: "Happiness dawned in the east, sorrow came to an end." Refrain: "The year had not elapsed before oil was nationalized. Home of lions-Iran! Iran!" It took Mossadegh's green 1950 DeSoto a full hour to make its way through the crowds to the Shah's Palace four miles away. One ragged, tearful old man trying to show his devotion by sacrificing himself under the car wheels was snatched away by the police...
...young Shah apparently expected Mossadegh to quit: Hadn't he come home emptyhanded? Instead, Mossadegh talked away for 5½ hours, over many cups of tea, describing British stubbornness, U.S. sympathy, Egyptian friendship. He and Premier Nahas Pasha had gotten to be real buddies on his visit to Egypt. The Shah next day had one word to describe the session: "Exhausting." But 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, no longer the fainting wonder, was full of beans...
Royal Dish. This week, as Mossadegh got set to fly home (he indignantly denied that the Shah had ordered him home), he faced the toughest crisis of his short, spectacular stay in office. When he kicked the British out, he promised Iran that there would be plenty for all. Instead, the loss of the $4,000,000 monthly oil revenue has brought Iran's government near to bankruptcy, its currency near to worthlessness, and the long-unpaid civil servants to the verge of striking. At the present rate, the Teheran government has only enough money left for another month...
From the White House in Washington, Harry Truman, still playing host to Iran's Premier Mossadegh and trying to mediate the British-Iranian oil squabble, remembered to send "felicitations and sincere good wishes" to the Shah of Iran on his 32nd birthday...
...exceedingly happy," Iran's young Shah cabled 72-year-old Premier Mossa-deq in New York, "to felicitate and congratulate you on your success in the oil dispute . . . We also would be happy and delighted to hear of your state of health." Mossadeq's much-discussed health was improving (see MEDICINE) almost as fast as his reputation as a politician...