Soviet Propaganda Is Remarkably Effective And The

It Would Serve The Americans Right If We Emptied The Prisons And Let The Subversives Take Power. They'd Soon Show Washington Just How Much They Appreciate Good Old American Values.

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

This Criticism Is Ridiculous. The Twenty-five Hundreth Anniversary Celebration Cost Me Less Than The Inauguration Of Each New President Of The United States.

Let Me Tell You Quite Bluntly That This King Business Has Given Me Personally Nothing But Headaches.

I Did Not Share The Enthusiasm Of Certain Politicians For The National Front Leader, It Was Because I Had Noticed, In The Past, Some Strange Contradictions Between Mossadeq's Declared Ends And His Actions. Officially He Defended Nationalist Anti-colonialism And Was The Most Intransigent Patriot Who Declared That No Concessions Or Advantages Should Be Granted To Foreign Powers. He Described His Doctrine As A "negative Balance" And In Fact His Greatest Failing Was That He Was Negative.