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With those words the British Foreign Secretary approved, on 19 January 1951, a submission from the Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. Furlonge had recommended that the Permanent Under-Secretary, Sir William Strang, should discuss with the Chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Sir William Fraser, the ominous implications of the decision by the Persian Prime Minister, General Razmara, to withdraw from the Majlis the still-unratified Supplemental Oil Agreement. Bevin added that a paper on the dispute should be prepared for the Cabinet.1
There is so much dynamite in this.
Ernest Bevin
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Alan Bullock, Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 288.
FO 371 91450 and Hossein Amirsadeghi, Twentieth Century Iran (London: Heinemann, 1977), p. 74.
Homa Katouzian, The Political Economy of Modern Iran (London: Macmillan, 1981) summarises other theories about the authorship of a murder still regarded as something of a mystery (pp. 158–60).
Yonah Alexander and Allan Nates (eds), The United States and Iran — A Documentary History (Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1980), p. 225.
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Hugh Dalton, High Tide and After (London: Frederick Muller, 1962), p. 323. Dalton (1887–1962) was a fellow member of the Attlee government who had himself wanted to be Foreign Secretary.
Roderick Barclay, Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office 1932–1969 (London: Barclay, 1975) p. 96.
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Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970), p. 556.
Herbert Morrison, An Autobiography (London: Odhams Press, 1960), p. 281. See also note 18.
Gregory Blaxland, The Regiments Depart: A History of the British Army 1945–1970 (London: William Kimber, 1971), p. 217.
William Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945–1951 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), p. 715.
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Cable, J. (1991). Thunder in the Air. In: Intervention at Abadan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11913-4_3
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