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April was a confusing month: random violence in Persia; cross-purposes in London; tension rising, but some major actors still in the wings.
Our difficulty has of course been to find any concession to the principle of ‘nationalisation’ which does not involve some degree of Persian ownership and therefore control.
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Notes and References
Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten: The Official Biography (London: Collins, 1985), pp. 499–500.
Foreword by Dean Rusk to George McGhee, Envoy to the Middle World (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. xii. This volume of memoirs is bland, well-researched and discreet.
FO 371 91455 and 91456 and letter of 9 November 1989 from Group Captain Hubbard. See also Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn, Tigris Gunboats (London: Andrew Melrose, 1932), pp. 87–92.
CAB 128 19 and Hugh Dalton, Political Diary, ed. Ben Pimlott (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), p. 534.
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Cable, J. (1991). Uncertain April. In: Intervention at Abadan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11913-4_4
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