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“England would be having less trouble with Iran today if it had been fairer to the Iranian people.”
Compiled, transcribed and introduced by Arash Norouzi
This 1950’s media archive features articles by the top syndicated columnists of the time on Iran, Premier Mohammad Mossadegh, the oil nationalization crisis and the 1953 coup. There are also columnists who wrote for their own newspaper only, along with humor columnists.
Holmes Alexander
January 9, 1952 — Who Cares If Iran Does Commit National Suicide?
August 7, 1956 — Mossadegh: A Lesson For Nasser?
October 19, 1967 — Shah of Iran Spells Good News For United States
Robert S. Allen
August 27, 1951 — Scared to Death (Inside Washington)
December 20, 1951 — British Policies Irk Truman
May 8, 1952 — Russia to Get Iran Oil
October 22, 1952 — Iran Shah May Be Ousted
Alsop Brothers (Joseph and Stewart Alsop)
August 25, 1951 — It’s Time to Face Facts About Iran
July 30, 1952 — Boiling Point Near In Iran
August 13, 1952 — After Mossadegh the Deluge
March 5, 1953 — Iran Highlights Middle East Unrest
Joseph Alsop
May 7, 1951 — U.S. Fumbling Big Opportunity In Not Organizing Middle East
May 23, 1951 — Britain Can Risk War, Or Lose Her Oil
May 25, 1951 — Reds Light War Fuse in Iran
May 28, 1951 — Abandoning of Paratrooper Plan for Southern Iran Leaves Menacing Void Open to Reds
May 30, 1951 — Fiddle-Faddling Created Iran Crisis
Stewart Alsop
December 3, 1951 — Birthplace Of Civilization, Easy To See How It Could Die
December 7, 1951 — Danger of Soviet Capture Grows Greater in Iran
December 10, 1951 — We Need Luck To Hold Iran
Jack Anderson
January 19, 1975 — Romancing the Shah of Iran
March 29, 1976 — Iran’s Shah Rules By Torture
December 1, 1976 — Whatever the Shah Wants, the Shah Gets
April 1986 — CIA Ousted Mossadegh In 1953 Iran Coup
Bruce Biossat
August 30, 1951 — Moslem Lands Must Recognize Dangers Posed By Extremists
October 9, 1951 — “Iran Problem” Now Is To Keep Her On Our Side
November 19, 1951 — Message to Mossadegh: Blackmail Does Not Pay
August 28, 1953 — Fluid Iranian Situation Might Still Be Dangerous
October 7, 1953 — Cloak-and-Dagger Tale Told In Recent Iranian Revolt
Constantine Brown
July 16, 1951 — Background on Iran Dispute; Dollars May Be Big Issue
October 10, 1951 — AIOC’s Failure Offers Lesson in Industrial Behavior
August 12, 1952 — Point Four Activities in Iran Under Heavy Fire
September 8, 1952 — Iran Offers Almost Hopeless Problem
April 29, 1953 — Soviet Tempts Britain with Iran ‘Deal’?
Marquis Childs
May 25, 1951 — How Western Powers Might Save Iran Oil
October 10, 1951 — Iran as Wedge Between Britain and the United States
October 18, 1951 — West Is Losing In Middle East
December 15, 1951 — Importance of Colonialism To Britain Now Assessed
November 11, 1952 — Anti-Trust Laws Ended Iranian Move
August 26, 1953 — Iran’s New Regime -- The West’s Last Chance
Ludwell Denny
September 20, 1951 — Iran Threat to Deal With Reds Not Weakening U.S. Position
November 1, 1951 — Is There a Chance Iran May Be Planning a Real Bargain?
July 31, 1952 — Regardless Of What It Does In Iran, The U.S. Will Be Criticized
August 14, 1952 — Iran, U.S. And Britain Deadlocked Over Oil
Peter Edson
October 15, 1951 — Mossadegh Is First Problem UN Must Solve in Oil Crisis
Maj. George Fielding Eliot
May 26, 1951 — Iran Crisis Seen Another Power-Move By Kremlin Lords
August 17, 1952 — Iran Calls For Wise Allied Stategy To Check War Threat
December 29, 1952 — U.S., Britain Weak In Iran Area
August 8, 1953 — How Close Is Iran To Explosion Point?
Clyde Farnsworth
June 19, 1951 — Iranian Premier Holds Trump Cards in Middle East Oil Crisis
July 6, 1951 — Iranian Official’s Threat: ‘Single British Soldier in Iran Will Start War’
July 17, 1951 — Iranian Riots Blood Baths For Zealots
August 19, 1951 — Harriman Put On Spot By Friends In Oil Talks
August 20, 1951 — Iranian-British Oil Talks Still Deadlocked
September 13, 1951 — Iran Could Be Vital For Communists—West Would Lose Oil Stocks
October 3, 1951 — Red Russia Waits Around To Woo Iran From West
Doris Fleeson
September 26, 1951 — Grady to Report U.S. Must Lead In Middle East
Jay Franklin (John Franklin Carter)
August 27, 1951 — Breakdown at Teheran Major Diplomatic Failure
March 8, 1953 — State Department Must Walk Softly in Persia
Jay G. Hayden
October 2, 1951 — Iran Case Could Rock U.N.
December 24, 1952 — Meddling In Iran
January 2, 1953 — Lessons From U.S. Failure In Iranian Oil Dispute
October 1, 1953 — Oil Industry Alert To Next Move In Iran
Marguerite Higgins
March 9, 1953 — Mossadegh Warns Shah On ‘Undue Intervention’ In Plotting Iran’s Course
March 20, 1953 — Iran Offers Britain 25% Of Oil Income
J.E. Jones
June 21, 1951 — British To Stay In Iran, Produce Nationalized Oil, Washington Hopes
July 19, 1951 — Iran Refuses To Produce Oil At Home—Will Spread More Here!
August 9, 1951 — “Broken Weekend” May Break British-Iranian Deadlock
October 18, 1951 — Mohammed Will Go To The Mountain
David Lawrence
September 17, 1951 — GOP Glad Truman Will Retain Acheson
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
October 8, 1953 — U.S. Involvement in Iran Revolt Now Believed Sure (Lewis)
Ernest K. Lindley
June 5, 1951 — Anarchy Seen Near in Iran
July 7, 1951 — Harriman Secretary of State?
July 15, 1951 — Harriman Has Difficult Mediation Task in Iran
August 28, 1951 — Harriman Did Good Job In Iran Crisis
Walter Lippmann
May 15, 1951 — Troubles in Iran Are Serious
May 24, 1951 — New Approach To Iran Is Needed
June 5, 1951 — Ray of Light Emerging In Iran Dispute
James Marlow
November 15, 1951 — Iran Faces Financial Crisis As Oil Industry Shuts Down
August 8, 1952 — Nationalization of Iranian Oil Dried Up Big Revenue Source
August 14, 1952 — Rich Men of Iran, Egypt Have Felt Ire Of Population
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
July 16, 1951 — Harriman Must Show Great Diplomatic Ability
September 28, 1951 — Scared or Crazy, Mossadegh a Menace to Iran
October 4, 1951 — Stalin To Be Only Real Gainer in Iran Dispute
August 4, 1952 — Deal With Britain Still May Be Iran’s Best Hope
October 15, 1952 — Mossadegh Unaware Of Dangers in Dual Play
December 16, 1952 — Britain-Iran Oil Accord Is Just Rumor
February 2, 1953 — Christian A. Herter Asks: “What Shall We Do In Iran?”
August 26, 1953 — Mossy’s Fall Vindicates Tougher U.S. Policy
October 27, 1954 — Iran and Yugoslavia Two Object Lessons
Barnet Nover
September 5, 1953 — Iran Victim of Illusions
Frederick C. Othman
June 28, 1951 — Abadan Doesn’t Mind 130°-140 But When It Gets to 101° It’s Cool
Drew Pearson
July 11, 1951 — Drew Pearson Libels Hossein Fatemi As Convicted Criminal
January 18, 1952 — Uncle Sam Must Pay the Bill For British Oil Losses In Iran
August 3, 1952 — Another Moscow Victory?
September 11, 1952 — Premier of Iran Refuses To Accept Letter From U.S.
J.M. Roberts, Jr.
November 15, 1951 — Iran Faces Financial Crisis As Oil Industry Shuts Down
December 8, 1951 — Iran Brew Begins To Boil Over
August 8, 1952 — Nationalization of Iranian Oil Dried Up Big Revenue Source
August 14, 1952 — Rich Men of Iran, Egypt Have Felt Ire Of Population
August 21, 1953 — No Royalist Pledge on Iran Oil Problem
August 24, 1953 — Iran Outlook Uncertain but Trouble Seen for Young Shah
Walter G. Rundle
August 21, 1953 — Week’s Balance Sheet Between Good and Bad News In Hot and Cold Wars
August 25, 1953 — Commies Beaten To Draw In Iran By Small Margin
R. H. Shackford
September 10, 1952 — British Socialist Takes Iran’s Side
Margaret Chase Smith
August 29, 1951 — Iran Offers Case In Point, Talk Must End Sometime
September 4, 1952 — U.S. Must Break Oil Impasse
George E. Sokolsky
October 12, 1951 — Oil Controversy Is Harming Britain
October 20, 1951 — Middle East, Due To Oil, Looms Large
October 22, 1951 — Great Powers Have Become War-Weary
January 5, 1952 — Churchill Has to Recognize World Changes
September 3, 1952 — Belated Overture On Iranian Oil
Richard Starnes
November 18, 1952 — All Iran Believes U.S. Is Its Fairy God-Mother
January 7, 1953 — Lots Of Iran Oil, But Even More Troubled Waters
Dorothy Thompson
May 4, 1951 — Almost Everything Is Wrong With Iran
May 18, 1951 — Iran May Prove More Serious Than Anything in Far East
August 1, 1951 — We Need a Good Policy in Iran
May 28, 1952 — The Anglo-Iranian Oil Problem
Ray Tucker
May 8, 1951 — Russia Needs Oil To Fight
October 11, 1951 — Breakdown In Iran Blow To Anglo-American Diplomacy
Andrew Tully
October 25, 1951 — Visit of Iranian Premier Gives State Dept. the Jitters
March 7, 1959 — Tears Leave Impression In Hospital
March 4, 1963 — Congress Should Provide For A Check on Central Intelligence Agency
Hanson W. Baldwin
May 25, 1951 — We Must Pour Peace on Iran’s Troubled Oil
Hamilton Butler
March 20, 1946 — The Smell of Iran’s Oil Ships That Pass In The Night
March 25, 1951 — Iran and Oily Semantics
April 15, 1951 — How Britain Outsmarted Itself
July 1, 1951 — History Repeats Itself
September 30, 1951 — ‘Why Asia Hates Us’
January 6, 1952 — Underwriting Colonialism
Horace Cayton, Jr.
Issue of Iranian Oil Serves to Earmark Need for Respecting Dark Peoples | March 31, 1951
Great Britain’s ‘Loss of Face’ In Iran Could Inspire African Move | Oct. 13, 1951
Iran’s Diplomats Used Smart Strategy at UN In Presenting Their Case to the World | Oct. 27, 1951
Interview: UN Ambassador Nasrollah Entezam on Race, Apartheid | Nov. 15, 1952
Bill Henry
Mossadegh “the swooning swami of Tehran” | October 7, 1951
“Primitive” Iran Needs U.S. Aid | March 16, 1954
Max Lerner
May 21, 1951 — The Oil And The Marsh
July 2, 1951 — Iran and The West
October 3, 1951 — What’s Wrong With Tears?
October 11, 1951 — The Sun Never Sets
P. L. Prattis
March 31, 1951 | The Negro Press Should Do Its Utmost to Destroy Racial Evils in America
June 2, 1951 | British Kept Iranians From Learning Western Oil Production Methods
June 9, 1951 | British Should Share Oil Profits and Learn to Take Orders in Iran To Ease Tensions
Sept. 29, 1951 | Britain’s Attempt to Force Iran to Yield on Oil May Provoke Third World War
Nov. 17, 1951 | American Negroes Should Be Concerned About What Is Happening in Egypt
August 11, 1952 — Iran Is Headed Toward Disaster (Phil Newsom)
October 31, 1952 — Mossadegh’s Mess
September 28, 1951 — Iran Sizzles
August 14, 1952 — Will Iran Be Next Before Korea Is Over? (E. F. Tompkins)
August 5, 1954 — Days of Glory Appear at End For Mossadegh
August 9, 1954 — British Comments on Iran’s Oil
November 18, 1954 — Alletson Cook’s New York Diary: Death Of A Traitor
August 1960 — Castro Following Mossadegh Trail (Cassandra)
April 22, 1961 — Crisis Ahead In Iran (Edward Wakin)
March 10, 1967 — Twists and Turns In Policy of Iran (George Weller)
July 6, 1985 — America Held Hostage (by George McGovern)
The WORLD This WEEK
October 8, 1951 — IRAN: Middle-East Powder Keg
October 13, 1951 — Mossadegh Pays A Call
December 11, 1951 — Mossadegh’s Policies Exposed to Poll Test
December 22, 1951 — Iran: Election Time
August 22, 1952 — Mideast Unrest
September 6, 1952 — Mossadegh Snarled in Twin Dilemma
October 11, 1952 — Mossadegh Pauses
March 3, 1953 — Tehran Riots Grow From Oil Deadlock
Potomac Fever | Fletcher Knebel
Headline Hopping | Ollie Crawford
One Man’s Opinion | Walter Kiernan
Senator Soaper Says | H. V. Wade
Colonel Joe Bush Says | Hugh W. Robertson
You’re Telling Me! by William Ritt
Persian Caviar | Looking At Life by Erich Brandeis (1953)
Hunger Strike | Looking At Life by Erich Brandeis (1954)
Nathaniel Gubbins: Is Dr. Mossadegh a parrot, a sheep, a man or a woman? (1951)
Charles G. Sampas’ “Sampascoopies” in The Lowell Sun (1952)
Thumbnail Editorials | The Palm Beach Post on Iran (1950’s)
As the World Turns by Henry Gay (Dec. 28, 1977)
Related links:
British Media Archive on Iran: 1951-1954
Australian Media Archive on Iran: 1951-1954
United States of America | media archive
President Harry Truman | media and editorial archive
THE KOREAN WAR | Vintage Media and Editorial Archive
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”
