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OCR Page 1 of 165/15/54, Reel 1, Track 2, Page 1
MR. ACHESON: At any rate, trouble began right away. The British began holding out on the
negotiation of the new oil contract. They made a perfectly good and very
satisfactory arrangement with the Iranians, but they got tangled up on small
details so that Razmara was not able to take this thing before the Majlis
bbt at a time when he could get it accepted, and they dragged on this rather
futile debate on minor points until his position was weakened and he felt
he couldn't do it. Then we proceeded to get into trouble. e had worked
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out a 25 million dollar Export-Import Bank loan. Razmara said that he didn't
dare take than before the Majlis in view of his difficulties with the British;
it was too small and they wouldn't think it was adequate. They didn it have any
plans for the use of any further money, but Grady thought it was a wise idea
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to raise this loan to 100 million dollars. That seemed to me very silly indeed,
and I talked with the President about it and he thought it was silly, and I
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man won't take 25 million dollars from you, you say, "All right;/here's a 100.1
You certainly will take that.' That seemed to me to be quite a foolish way to
go about the thing. At any rate, we didn't do it; and that was, again, a source
of disappointment to Grady. At this point, Razmara was murdered and Mossedegh
came in; a pd we come to the second stage of this. Now at this point, George,
I have gone over rather gaily [1] some rather serious questions which you had
to work around. Suppose we take a pause at this time, and you and Paul say
anything you want to say on this part of it.
MR. MC GHEE:
I might just make some general observations, as you have, Dean, and then maybe
we can converge on a point that we can discuss back and forth. I came into
the Iranian situation in 1949 and am not as familiar with that preceeding.
I had a feeling always that Iran had a basic expectation of getting a hand-out,
left over from the occupation during the war; that her whole basic psychology
was that the western countries owed her something and that she was going to
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