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    "ocrText": "5/15/54: Reel 3, Track 2, Page 2\nman, not an Iranian.\nMR. NITZE: (?) He had Iranians at first but not at the last meeting we had with him, where\nwe asked for the opportunity to present our case to his people. He said,\n\"there's no use; you can' convince them,\" but he did have them all in and\nwe had one session with the whole group.\nMR. ACHESON:\nI mention this on account of the next episode here, which was the next day\nafter these discussions. The President gave him a lunch, and after--he\nasked that he could have a talk wi th the President. So after the lunch was\nover and the guests had gone away-various Senators, Congressmen and various\nTRINAN\npeople who came to these luncheons--W had asked the Iranian Ambassador,\nMossadegh, the President and myself. The four of us were there, and there\nKI RY\nthe\nwas quite a little bit of confusion. And finally the doors were shut, and\nthe people who remained in the sitting room were Mossadegh, the President\nand myself. And I asked whether we hadn it made a mistake; didn't he want\nthe Ambassador there. He made it quite clear that he hadn't made a mistake\nat all; he d dn't want anybody present. He just didn't trust a soul in\nIran.\nMR. HARRIMAN:\nYou know, when I saw him, when I was in Iran, he only talked with me alone\nwith Walters as interpreter; there was never-of course, when he came to\nmeals there were Iranians around, but he never talked business except alone.\nMR. NITZE: (?)\nInteresting how he trusted us but not his own people.\nMR. ACHESON:\nHe wouldn't have one of them around. He had a curious way of\nMR. HARRIMAN:\nI don't think it was a question of trusting us, but he knew we couldn't\ndo him any damage.\nMR. McGHEE: (?)\nHe wouldn't even have his son around.\nMR. ACHESON:\nHe had a funny way of sitting in a chair; I don't remember whether he had\none leg under him and the other one he pulled up over that; but there were\nno legs on the floor. He looked like a fellow who had had his legs ampu-\ntated; there wasn't anything down. Funny how it looked, and it gave him\nthis strange, lob-like quality. It was a strange sight. The President"
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