Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Iran Allahyar Saleh, and John F. Simmons
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Memorandum of Conversation
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DATE:
September 18, 1952
SUBJECT:
First Call of the Ambassador-designate of Iran
PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary
The Ambassador-designate of Iran
The Chief of Protocol
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His Excellency Allahyar Saleh, newly appointed Ambassador of Iran,
called on me at 10:15 a.m. today to present copies of his credentials
and to request an appointment with the President.
After the usual exchange of courtesies, the Ambassador proceeded
to tell me of his own friendship for the United States and of the fact
that he accepted this appointment principally because he felt that a
solution of the present difficulties of his country, particularly with
Great Britain, had become an urgent matter in which he might be of some
practical assistance.
The Ambassador assured me that his country was deeply appreciative
of our friendship and of the Point IV aid we had already given, even
though the latter might not be completely adequate. He described the
situation of his country as deteriorating from day to day. He said
that the revulsion of feeling against Great Britain was very strong,
and that he felt that the British were still trying to use dilatory
tactics in order to bring Iran "to its knees" He said that this was
a mistaken policy, that the Iranians were a proud people and would not
tolerate any further injustices in regard to the petroleum dispute. He
intimated that present difficulties, if allowed to continue and increase
as they now are, would lead to a continued deterioration of the position
of the western world in Iran and might throw his people into the hands
of the Soviet Union.
I assured the Ambassador that I did not feel that England was
trying to bring Iran to its knees and that every effort was being made,
both by our Government and by the Churchill Government, to find a
solution
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