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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 1880-1967
Wadsworth, George, 1893-1958
Morrison, Herbert, 1888-1965
Grady, Henry Francis, 1882-1957
Gifford, Walter S. (Walter Sherman), 1885-1966
Ala, Husayn, 1882-1964
Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute, 1951-1954
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OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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WASHINGTON
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982
July 9, 1951
By DEB NTT, Date 9-5-85
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SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
IRAN
In a conversation Saturday evening with former Iranian
Prime Minister Ala which had been arranged at Ala's
request, Ambassador Grady urged that the Iranians accept the recommen-
dations of the International Court of Justice on the oil question and asked
Ala to communicate that view to Prime Minister Mosadeq and his counselors.
Grady pointed out that world opinion would turn strongly against Iran if
the recommendations were not accepted. Ala agreed that many mistakes
had been made and indicated that in the secret meeting of the Iranian Parlia-
ment the following day there would be critical questions by a number of
deputies with regard to the course Mosadeq has been pursuing.
Ambassador Gifford reports that the morale of the
British AIOC staff in Iran is viewed in London as an increasingly serious
problem. However, a message is being sent through official UK channels
in Iran urging British personnel to remain where they are but leaving to
the discretion of the British authorities in Abadan the decision as to when
it is necessary to evacuate personnel from the oil fields to Abadan.
TURKEY
After showing our Ambassador in Ankara the message
from UK Foreign Secretary Morrison relative to the
British position on Turkey's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty and on
the establishment of a Middle East Command, the Turkish Foreign Min-
ister commented that he welcomed British support of Turkey's desire to
join in NATO and that he viewed Morrison's suggestion that Turkey should
join in establishing a Middle East Command not as a condition precedent
to the extension of such support but rather as a justification for earlier
British hesitancy in the matter. The Foreign Minister has in mind pro-
posing to the Turkish Cabinet a brief reply which would express apprecia- -
tion of British support and would place on record Turkey's continuing keen
interest in the security and defense of the Middle East, welcoming the
suggested opportunity to consider with the US, UK and France all related
problems of common interest including that of military command.
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