British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.

to be
destroyed; others carried tennis rackets and golf clubs; the
hospital nurses and the indomitable Mrs. Flavell who ran the guest
house and three days previously had intimidated a Persian tank
commander with her parasol for driving over her lawn, were among the
party, and the Rev. Tyrie had come safely from locking up in the
little church the records of those who had been born, baptised, or
had died in Abadan… The ship’s band ‘correct’ to the end, struck
up the Persian national anthem and the launches began their shuttle
service… The cruiser Mauritius steamed slowly away up the river
with the band playing, the assembled company lining the rails and
roaring in unison the less printable version of ‘Colonel Bogey’ …
The greatest single overseas enterprise in British commerce had
ground to a standstill.33

By 4th
October the 1951, the last of the British personnel had been
evacuated from Abadan. The Security Council in New York in the
meanwhile, met on 1st October. The discussion on the item submitted
by the United Kingdom was opened by the representative of the Soviet
Union, who opposed inclusion of that item on the Security Council’s
agenda on the basis that a discussion of the question in the Council
would constitute interference in the internal affairs of Iran and a
gross violation of the Iranian people’s sovereignty. Yugoslavia took
a similar position. India gave a half-hearted support to Britain.
Then Sir Gladwyn Jebb gave a lengthy account of the British case. He
called on the Iranian Government to act in all respects in
conformity with the provisional measures indicated by the Court. On
the conclusion of Sir Gladwyn Jebb’s speech, the representative of
Iran requested the Council to adjourn discussion of the