December 7, 1953 editorial
| The Mossadegh Project | March 9, 2014 |
This ran in the editorial section of newspapers across the country between around December 7 and December 23, 1953. Among the other titles: Gorgeous George...Here’s a Match and Mossadegh Would Get Top Billing.
Let’s Rassle
Iranian Premier Mossadegh recently offered to wrestle the court prosecutor in Tehran, where he is on trial for treason.
The aged gentleman even said he’d tussle right in the courtroom.
If only television were global! Some enterprising TV outfit in America would snap this thing up in a minute. It certainly bears more promise than those purely verbal UN encounters billing Lodge vs. Vishinsky.
[United Nations diplomats Henry Cabot Lodge (U.S.) and Russian envoy Andrei Vishinsky.]
Related links:
Tears Are New TV Vogue | December 17, 1951
Mossadegh Denies Authority of Court | AP, November 11, 1953
In Defense Of Mossadegh | Letter to Detroit Free Press, December 11, 1953
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”
