By ROBERT B. HEWETT

TEHRAN, Iran, June 28 (AP) — Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in a personal letter today to President Truman expressed confidence the United States would support Iran’s nationalization program.

The letter contained no hint of a compromise, nor did it make any reference to rumors that Mr. Truman might be asked to assume the role of mediator.

Mossadegh blamed the British for threatening to shut down the flow of Iranian oil to the West.

The letter was made public shortly after Iran sent a formal protest to neighboring Iraq permitting British cruiser Mauritius to enter Iraqi River waters near the Iranian oil center of Abadan.

Iran said the presence of the cruiser and British troops in Iraq was a breach of the Iranian-Iraqi friendship pact. British troops are in Iraq under treaty arrangements.

The letter to Mr. Truman said the Anglo-Iranian Company must be responsible if the Abadan refinery closes down.

The premier charged that A.I.O.C. has resorted to “certain actions which will necessarily cause a stoppage in the exportation of oil. . . . They are encouraging the employees to leave their services and are threatening the government with their resignation en masse. . . They force oil tankers to refuse to deliver receipts to the present board of directors of the National Oil Company.”

A British official in Tehran commented that the message, replying to an appeal by President Truman June 1 for moderation, was “just outright propaganda.”

Official sources in London said that to blame Britain for the deadlock would be “a fantastic travesty of the facts.”

The Iranian government made public the 800-word message only five and a half hours after it was handed to U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, which contributed to a belief among westerners here it was intended mainly for propaganda effect. Normally letters between two friendly nations are not made public without mutual consent or acknowledgement.

There had been hopes in Western quarters that Mossadegh might have shown some willingness to negotiate the dispute.

These hopes were expressed after U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson called for interim talks in order to keep the oil flowing to the West.

But Mossadegh’s letter seemed to make it clear that Iran will insist to the bitter end on carrying out her nationalization law to the letter.

This was the reaction of one British official to the letter: [also: One British official said of the letter:]

“There’s not a thing new in it. There’s not the slightest inclination to try and get a reachable settlement.”

Iran also announced today that she will not send representatives to the International Court hearing at The Hague tomorrow on the oil dispute.

This development came as zero hour for evacuation of British oil workers neared.

The statement yesterday by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson appealing for a stop-gap arrangement which would let the British employes stay in Iran to keep the oil moving was believed to have had an effect on Iranian officials.

U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady was handed the message for Truman by Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi in a brief meeting. The middle-of-the-road newspaper Atesh said the message expressed Iran’s desire to keep the oil flowing but blamed the British for mass resignations which might stop it.

India’s Prime Minster Jawaharlal Nehru messaged Mossadegh urging a policy of moderation in the interests of world peace.

Mossadegh has nationalized Iran’s oil and is determined to drive the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., which has run it for 50 years, out of the country. Should the British managers and technicians pull out, the billion dollar oil industry here would, in all probability, have to shut down. Western Europe’s defense is largely fueled by Iranian oil.

The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company reportedly expects word from London, perhaps today, to send its remaining 2,800 British employes home and shut down. Women and children have all gone and the British cruiser Mauritius was ordered to stand by off the oil port of Abadan, site of the world’s largest refinery, to cover evacuation of the men. It will also guard against disorders.

Plans already laid reportedly contemplate getting them out in 72 hours whenever the signal is given.

AIOC’c tough young field boss, A. E. C. Drake, has spent the past two days in Basra, across the frontier in Iraq, on the advice of British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd. [Eric Drake]

Shepherd said he was afraid Iran’s proposed new law decreeing death for sabotage might strike at Drake. Iran accused Drake of sabotage for ordering captains of British tankers at Abadan not to sign receipts saying they owned the Iranian National Oil company for the oil taken aboard their ships.

By this morning there were 42 tankers tied up near Abadan because of the dispute. [also: squabble] The British Government has ordered them to discharge cargo and sail empty rather than sign the receipts.

Without ships to carry it off, oil and gasoline will soon clog the limited storage facilities necessitating a shutdown even if British personnel stay on. The company hopes to hang on at least until tomorrow when the International Court at The Hague, The Netherlands, is scheduled to take up a British request for an injunction against Iran. Iran has said it will not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.

Acheson’s statement on the Iranian situation, made in Washington yesterday, chided Iran for proceeding with its nationalization plan “in a manner which threatens immediately to bring the great Abadan refinery to a halt and to result in instability and distress within Iran.”

He voiced regret that Iran had turned down British compromise suggestions without study, and warned that other technically developed countries will be unwilling to take the place of withdrawn British technical help.

“If it is not possible at this time to agree upon a long-range basis for suitable collaboration,” he said, “I sincerely hope that some interim arrangement can be made which will not prejudice the position of either side, but which will, pending the development of something of more permanent nature, permit British technicians to remain in Iran and the production and shipment of oil to be continued without interruption.”

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