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...deeply unhappy in Paris; he had been forced to leave his young wife and their two children in Teheran. In his small Left Bank room he became nervous and moody, developed stomach ulcers. When he heard about the ulcers, the Shah allowed his ex-protege to return home...
...Reza Khan, a onetime army sergeant who with British help had become Iran's virtual dictator, proclaimed himself Shah. "I am against it. It is contrary to law," Mossadeq shrieked in Parliament, and he was the only prominent man in Iran with the courage...
With immense, if often misdirected energy, the new Shah tried to modernize an extraordinarily backward country (paper money was not introduced until 1931). But Mossadeq, opposed to his strong-arm methods, fought him at every turn...
...Reza Shah (the present Shah's father) took belated revenge on his old enemy. On a trumped-up charge, secret police arrested Mossadeq in his garden. When his favorite daughter, Khadijeh, then 17, heard the news, she suffered a nervous breakdown, is still in a sanitarium in Switzerland. (The Premier bursts into tears whenever her name is mentioned...
...Prospects. For the moment, Mossadeq holds power in his frail, nervous hands. The only other Iranian politician of stature is Ahmad Qavam, who is ill in Switzerland. The young Shah, who is known to favor a go-slow policy on oil nationalization, could dissolve Parliament, dismiss Mossadeq and rule the country with his still loyal army, but all signs indicate that he does not dare try. Even the Communists have for the moment been stopped by Mossadeq's popularity. They have called off street demonstrations and other political action, evidently waiting to strike if & when Mossadeq makes a mess...