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The man who backs
TEHERAN.
Na large spacious office
overlooking the palm- fringed river at Khor-
ramshar sits 40-year-old, fair-haired A. E. Charlie
the
oil-grab
Drake, general manager of KENNETH MACAULAY tells the tale
the vast Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Concern
Southern Persia,
in
die will be waiting. a man-
of one man, his philosophy and
his importance to all of us...
sized pipe in his mouth, for the mannered man, but behind him to think what taking
new owners to take over.
com-
They will come, 11 of them, 11 solemn Persians charged by their Government assume
to absolute power over the pany and to see that the great undertakings of the concern on Persian soil are made over with- of oil out, they hope, a drop being spilled.
Back in Teheran a frail, 75- year-old man, who has succced- ed in forcing nationalisation of the oil industry through parlia- ment, will be walling to hear that his life's dream of dispos- sessing the British is an accom- plished fact.
Dr. Moseddeon.
the
11
Then came the
By... Frederick Cook
Here Comes Mrs Edwards
NEW YORK. In all of these the realless the USA ever elects a 6ft. Tin. India Edwards played
IF the USA ever e the a decisive part. She has made a
historians of the time will put it down to the work of Mrs India Edwards, who operated in Washington, mostly behind the scenes, in the middle of the 20th cen- túry.
since
career of breaking into mas- culine closed shops ever she started out at 20 as a junior reporter for Colonel McCormick on his Chicago Tribune (whose policies she detests).
Nowadays she is at her deak In her custere ofee in Wash- ington by 8.45 every morning Mrs Edwards ("And don't after a ride downtown with her ask me about the 'India'- Inisband. Herbert, £72-a-week got it from my great-aunt head of the International Films India, and I don't know section of the State Departnert. where she picked it up") is She works a 10-hour day, "and the most powerful woman I always take a briet-case home
Washington, politically with me at night." speaking.
in
Nobody on the national
Typical Spell
TUCH of her time goes on
stage had ever heard of her MUCH #ingering-up visits to
before the day, six years local party organisations ago, when she walked into over the USA.
all
the headquarters of the De-. Here is a fairly typicat spell mocratic National Commit- for her: tee and asked for a job. A matronly woman of 49, with
warm
brown eyes, she had just lost her only son in the
war.
She's The Boss TODAY she is the £100-a- week vice-chairman of the committee (top govern-
MONDAY, a day at the desk
and a night fight to Boston;
TUESDAY, work in the local
offer;
WEDNESDAY, work again and a full-length speech at a Demceratie banquet;
THURSDAY, back to Wash- ingten for another speech:
FRIDAY, her own office;
ing body of the governing SATURDAY, back to Boston party) and supreme com- to speak again, mander of all its women's forces.
Days later, speeches in Wash- ington, Kentucky and on the
India Edwards first had Pacific Coast.
It is a heotle pace. "My hus- Jackpot question: the idea that Perle Mesta,
now Minister to Luxem- band," she says, "would prefer "Will you sell the
bourg, ought to have some But he makes no protest.
it if I stayed home a bit more. oil to Russia?"
He thing more important to do understands how I feel," than just give good parties. She dropped hints when the Trumans were around. And
The doctor re- plied emphatically: "No, not a drop."
Anglo Iranian
Ho
Her Hats
JOME for the Edwards is, a colonial house in Mary-
land, where India loves to cook casserole dishes, spend her
week-ends cleaning house and Indulge her one hobby "making amy own hats, once in a way n
really wild one."
stand the gunmen.
over the Anglo-Iranjan Let no one think, however, O Company means
when it came off she quickly that the doctor pale pink economically and financially. Let us now take a look at followed up by mentioning incorruptible and patriot in his fusion-approves of or has any
Is polities are founded
Com-the name of Eugenie An- part in the assassination of airy-fairyism and his few finan-pany's vast industrial ramifica-derson, a well-to-do Middie politicians.
tons in Persia, risk calculations on a ready
Western housewife, as Nevertheless, gunmen, who reokoner.
Some say the company is good choice for the Em consider themselves patriots, 100,
ile wore a grey dressing gown worth twice as much. It would appointment was a brilliant
worth £260 million. It right bebassy at Copenhagen. are in the background, ready to remove anyone who threatens and maroon pyjama trousers
take legions of auditors a year, success. effectively to oppose the plan of when he received me "Persian oil for the Persians and handsome hang the expense."
villa la a Teheran balance sheets are no help there. to work it out. The company's suburb.
There is a curious perversity
in it all.
No thinking
in his
Here is □ specimen of our conversalicri,
-Macaulay: "The
Nem: Land, rehnery flank In- stallations, pipe, lines and build- ing at cost- £81,000,000, less agreement depreciation £53,000,000 nei
DR MOSEDDECH is a Premier by which Anglo-Iranian got its £28,000,000.
3
whose emotions have run concession was freely entered away with common sense. He into by Persia, surely. Don't He is Dr Mohammed Mosed- has never slopped hard you
agree a contract 19 degh, newly made Prime Minis- ly single
a
member of
-contract and ter of Persia. He is
cannet a mild the Majlis has stopped
legally be broken by one side?" Dr. Moseddtgi; "The agree ment is null and void because it was entered into by vernment in the
past under the domination of the British,
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heen wife's telephone. An all-malé
Go-
Chairman Sir William Fraser's financial conservatism may cost him dear yet.
The
Since she has been boss of the feminine side of the Democratic Party, women have blossomed out in all manner of top Go- vernment jobs.
Long String THERE is Frieda Hennock, a
Federal
Commissioner.
Communications
The 135,000 employees
There is Georgia Neese Clark, are Treasurer of the United States £50,000,000 in the till or cash job. part of a business that calls for and first of her sex to hold the at the bank to run every year.
Is alternate
United
terested in what is
No Soctalist, she is keenly in- going on in England. "England," she said, "Is following the general evolu- ton of man in trying circum- stanees-leading the way, so to speak. They will come out all right in the end."
Mrs Edwards-thinks-it-quite likely that a woman
will be elealed to the White House one day. But not yet.
"There is too much feeling against cur sex for the present," she said. "Anyone who predicts it is going in thinking."
for wishful
Her staff say this is an exam-
shc Mrs Edita Sampson, gifted ple of how
works-no The Persian Government has states delegate to UNO.
Nogress,
crank trying to plent fire- not got so much money in cash.
cracker behind the plodding feet How? The British packed the to a month in arrears for salary Federal judges and other UNO how to, get what she wants.
of history but a careful long- Civil servants are anything up
of range planner well aware long string
elections, 'und only those de- already. puties acceptable to the British got returned."
'Neutrals'
MOR months past Con- obtained by "apping" his WHAT is the good of arguing
gressmen have trumpeting the need to cut down the number of people employed by Uncle Sam.
Pausing to check up on how Unings are, they have just re- ceived a nasty surprise.
For the Civil Service Com- miation informs the nation that a grand total of 2,302,100 men and women are on the Government payroll.
And, far from decreasing, the number
has jumped by 53,500' fince
1.
with a man like that? Hebe- jury, wearing headphones, Is-leves that nonsense as he hopes for seven days. tened to records of the "taps" for heaven,
“ጥሩ
Huffy the reason,-
the baffled Congressmen ar told that it is because of sea- sonal hiring
The only hope of raising such an enormous "float" would be to sell gold or pledge the Shah's crown Jowels and fabulous pra- cock throne which are
used to back the currency.
Knowing this only too well, it is unlikely that British tech- niclans, would agree to serve the Persian Government on anything but salary-in-advance terms.
"First of all," he said, "it is WHEN Andrea Rivera and not our plan to confiscate the his wife Viola, of the Bronx, property of the former**
The Anglo-Iranian built and were arrested and charged carefully stressed
(he handed over to the Persian that with selling "reefers".
word), education authorities 33 elemen- (dope "Anglo-Iranian cigarettes), to teen-agers, they shall pay them on a fair basis." schools and a £130,000 technical Company. We hry schools, three secondary shrugged and remarked: "We was only trying to make both ends meet."
the mam-
school for turning Perslan boys The doctor had no idea how into oll technologists. much the compensation would
KATE SMITH;
amount to, but he imagined Cinemás, moth woman
with the Uny would be pretty easy to work voice, has just rounded off 20. it out. (We shall seo-just--how-~ years in show business. And easy in a minute.)
in that time she has "ent
by the Income 29,000,000 dollars. Yes,
clubs
EVERY employee gets a free medical service in three Moseddegh. went on: "We General hospitals and 35 dispen-
sarics rua
the
refinery
.at
by 100 doctors and 333 nurses. There are 34 health
tax people and the "stepped- nine million dollars. Her shall up" activities of the military theme song: "When the Moon Abadan and offlelds up country inspectors and 1,000 sanitary and price control departments. Comes over the Mountain," by a board of directors appointed workers, All this costs the com
That moon's made of gold, all by the Government. They will, pany £2,000,000 a year. right.
of course, be mainly Persians, but we may have to have a Depart few noutral experis.--
that
UNIFORMED Russians were cheered to the, echo on Broad- way. They were 10
"White
RED-FACED State Russians,"
ment omelala wearing
admitted dress, and taking
they pulled a boner in their "We realise there are not propaganda drive on the Mid-enough Persians with the neces "Loyalty Parade,"
part
Cossack
in
MANY people wistfully with that the Russians would " try
Fourteen hundred miles of. company-built roads are main- tained at £400,000 a year.
four cinemas, 21 swimming pools, What else is there?, Thirty- dle East, Pictures of Huscious sary skill in engineering tech- 40 clubs, and playing fields.. Atlantic City bathing beauty winners were sent
to run nology and chemistry But
the-industry at once, so we shall tinue in their jobs. But it must be understood they will be em ployees of the Persian Govern-
out.
to be pleasant once la a while, the Ambe complained.
Not so Tam Dewey, Governor said they prefer pletures They invite British experts to con- dreds of meals a day at Bd.
of New York State, He says in women wearing plenty
a magazine article that a dan clothes.
grunter than
ם
Soviet attack will come bet Joseph Stalin miles. And am afraid that he will
soon, and that we will smile
I
that
of
of
ono
"How shall we market our
UP NORTH in Springfield, ment. Massachusetts, motorists shedding, no tears at the DOWS svalle
spel is retiring at 00. In will be avaliable to the world.
policemen Christopher 07 The prodiseta of our relinery five years Christopher fansed AMERICAN legal history" over 200,000 summonse
"Wo that put up our ell to the was made in Brooklyn, where parking offences, winding up the former Anglo-Iranian Oil for highest bidder, but we shall give Lows Applebaum." Was" granted - with $3,000 Last year alone, Company first preference
Back--and drop our name."
Besides this there are 'hun- each by a company which, in Dr Moseddesh'a view, has exis ted "only to exploit the natural wealth of Parzla and keep her people ignorant and poor.".
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