British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.
the General
Assembly. If the Anglo-Iranian case comes to trial this action
would prejudice us unless we had at least been to the Security Council. I
think policy considerations must be ultimately the deciding factor.31
On the same
day as the communication from the Attorney General came, 28th
September, ‘His Majesty’s Government submitted the oil dispute to the
Security Council of the United Nations.’ 32 The
British Government stated to the United Nations Security Council that it was
the British Government’s policy to rely on the machinery of the United
Nations and the rule of law rather than on the use of force. The British
Foreign Office in a statement announced that Britain would now take her
stand on the basis of the International Court’s interim decision of 5th
July, which had ordered the maintenance of the status quo, as was outlined
earlier in this chapter. In Teheran, the Iranian Prime Minister, Dr.
Musaddiq, announced that he would fly to New York to present the Iranian
case to the Security Council personally, though the Security Council was
without competence to intervene in the dispute.
In London on 29th September, it
was announced that orders had been given for
the evacuation of the remaining British staff at Abadan. As W.R. Louis has
described the last hour of waiting in his book,
The British Empire in the Middle
On the morning of October 4,
1951, the party assembled before the Gymkhana
Club, the centre of so many of the lighter moments of their life in Persia,
to embark for Basra in the British cruiser Mauritius. Some had dogs, though
most had had
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Ibid.
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PRO, London, FO 371/98593,
The General Political Correspondence of, George Middleton to
Sir Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, Report on events in
Persia in 951, Confidential, 24th March 1952.Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177
