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INCOMING TELEGRAM
Department of State
TELEGRAPH BRANCH
11 H X
SECRET
A
Action
Control: 75
Rec'd: July 1, 1951
NEA
FROM: Tehran
10:29 a.m.
Info
SS
TO: Secretary of State
G
313
EUR
NO: 6, July 1, 2 p.m.
DCR
HARRY S. TRUMAN
PRIORITY
EYES ONLY FOR SECRETARY ACHESON
I wish to make a strong personal appeal to you and to the
President if you care to discuss the matter with him. All
last fall and winter we endeavored to get the AIOC to change
its policy in the interest of the over-all objectives of the
British and ourselves vis-a-vis Russia. I talked with Shepherd
a number of times, with Furlonge when he was here last November
and again with Ambassador Franks in Washington last December.
My pleas were in addition to the many efforts made by the
Department through the London Embassy and particularly the
efforts of McGhee in London last September. All that time it
was impossible to get the Foreign Office to influence the oil
company to carry out our strong recommendations with regard to
some non-monetary concessions which would enable Razmara to
get the supplemental agreements through the Majlis and
incidentally to strengthen him to get through various reforms
he was seeking to effect.
The same intransigence on the part of the British that thwarted
us last fall and into the spring seems again to be manifesting
itself. The British, led by Mr. Morrison, seem to be determined
to follow the old tactics of getting the government out with
which it has difficulties. You will find in recent cables from
London some evidences of this and I am sure it is the view of
many of the oil officials. (I do not include Jackson as having
this view .
Mosadeq has the backing of 95 to 98 percent of the people of
this country. It is utter folly to try to push him out. If he
falls of his own weight, that is another matter. When I got
him to make the concession of promising to withdraw the anti-
sabotage law, it was interpreted by Mr. Morrison as a mani-
festation of weakening on Mosadeq's part and a justification
for stiffening on the part of the British. This is not the spirit
in which to approach the problem here.
Since the Foreign Office is prepared (London telegram 6943
June 30) to allow me to endeavor to get Mosadeq to accept
endorsement on receipts for tanker shipments which I proposed
(EMBTEL repeated
SECRET
REPRODUCTION OF THIS
MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED
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