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SECURITY INFORMATION
After two days' consideration, Alexander telephoned Tydings and
said he was willing to get in touch with the U.K. Government in
London, as Tydings had suggested, and urge the British to send
someone to the U.S. for the purpose of negotiating with Tydings.
Tydings' idea was that these negotiations would be carried on
very quietly in New York and that if something useful resulted,
an appropriate means to make the results public could be devised
later. If nothing useful resulted, there would be no loss of face
or public recrimination on either side. Tydings hoped that Sir
William Fraser would come over. The Morgan Company had
earlier told Tydings they had no particular interest in the matter
other than as a private banking firm and that they no longer
(as Tydings had tentatively suggested they might be in light of the
history of the Company) were interested in playing any special role
in the international scene. The Company told Tydings they did not
have any unique relationship with the U.K. Government nor with
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. However, in his call to Tydings,
Alexander said that he was willing to fly to London and have his
agents there contact the British Foreign Office. Mr. Tydings
suggested that the inconvenience of a flight was not necessary
and that he thought a telephone call followed by a confidential let-
ter would do the job. Alexander agreed.
Several days later Tydings received a call from Morgan and
Company telling him he was to present himself at the British Em-
bassy and, although he was not to be identified previously by name,
the British Ambassador would be expecting someone. Tydings
presented himself to Ambassador Franks and apparently several
discussions were held. The result was that Tydings was told that
the U.K. Government preferred to conduct its negotiations through
regular channels and in particular through its Embassy in Tehran
which could speak directly to Dr. Mossadegh.
Tydings said that nothing further had developed along the line
of negotiations. He now was coming to the Secretary in or der to
tell the latter of his own personal conviction that the time was
ripe for arbitration. He believed that diplomatic negotiation could
not possibly succeed in the super-heated public atmosphere of Iran.
He thought it essential to get into arbitration as quickly as possible,
and he also thought that a loan should be made to the Iranians on an
urgent basis in order to help Mossadegh to hold/eConomic situation
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
SECRET
Dep. of State letter,
SECURITY INFORMATION
By NLT- He NARS Date 11-28-76
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