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OCR Page 1 of 1512/13/53
Reel 7. Track 2, page 1
MR. ACEESON:
low what we vere trying to do as Attlee had been reassured, he vas
Dinner at
reassured; and understood the military situation and that was all
Embassy-
to the good. In the course of these meetings, we had separate neetings
on Iran and Rgypt. The first Sunday night that they vere in Washington
there vas a dinner at the British Embassy at which Bob Lovett, General
Bradley and I were asited to have dinner with Mr. Churchill, Vden, Franks
tsilaroundandtalde
and Charvell (1). This was just a supper
In the course of that we
got into Iran and I said some things which injured Anthony's feelings.
Eden on
It vas just a temporary anag which I think vas gotten over and led to
Iran.
some letters which I vas going to read in a moment. Eden was taking
the position that the State Department and the Foreign Office should
concern themselves only with what he called the foreign relations aspect
and that ell this talk that we were cont nually getting into about the
oil business was quite aside from the point and he wasn't concerned with
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that and why did we talk about figures and business arrangements and
the
all that kind of thing. I pressed him pretty hard on the ides that this
was the heart of the matter, that there vas no use talking about the
broad foreign affairs relations because ve all were agreed about that
but the point was hov vere you going to do anything as a practical
matter. This led to various rather sharp observations in which I said
that I thought the business of Foreign Minister today was vofy different
from what it was when Lad Palnerston wes handling thinge like this and
that you had to know as mich about a lot of things as some people who vere
engaged in these businesses themselves in order to know what vas practic-
able, what was feasible, what would operate, and that I thought to rely
on the Anglo-Iranian 011 Company, the very people who vere in the heart
of the trouble, was not the way to get disinterestedp and wise advice.
He sort of withdrew from the conversation
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