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...Western ways and techniques. They are learning rapidly that their misery is unnecessary, their lot unjust. This means that Iran is not only poverty-stricken and disease-ridden; it is also in a ferment of insecurity that runs from the peasant in his windowless hovel to the young Shah in his palace. Everybody knows that the future will be very different, but nobody has any confidence that the immediate future will be better for him. Unless economic improvement is speeded up unless the people get a real political stake in their country, Communism will reap in Iran what Western influence...
...heap of corruption sits the royal family. Every member of it is well and painfully aware of the fact that the dynasty was founded only 25 years ago. Iranian peasants are attached to the idea of monarchy, but even they know that the founder of the present line, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was a sergeant in the Iranian army, a "strong man" raised to power by British influence after World War I, broken and exiled by the British in World...
Overseas Consultants was formed by eleven of the top U.S. engineering and management firms. For the Iranian government it prepared a five-volume report for the economic regeneration of the country (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949). The Shah's government engaged O.C.I. to put the seven-year plan into effect. This plan was widely and justly acclaimed as one of the most important postwar moves of U.S. business in support of American foreign policy...
...wholehearted or effective in backing O.C.I. The Iranians were disappointed when the O.C.I. contract failed to grease the wheels for a large loan from the World Bank. The British resented O.C.I.'s presence in Iran, and negotiations over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s payments to the Shah's government became deadlocked. Since most of the money for the seven-year plan was supposed to come from these payments, the plan never got going...
Actually, by the time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from...