![]() But over the last four years, the number of secret files being made public has been greatly reduced. Once-classified documents such as these are the raw materials of history. ''Anything may happen, but we are still optimistic that some workable arrangement will be made which at least will keep oil flowing to the West.'' ''The cooler heads are in the minority here at the present,'' one flimsy blue dispatch says. Some, however, speak candidly of a society even then under great stress. Many of the papers it holds are not exciting: transfer orders, trade complaints, a decree that ladies' attire at the Shah's marriage will be ''the dress worn at tea, with hat.'' It is marked ''Tehran Embassy, General Records, 1951,'' and has just been cleared by National Archives declassifiers. ![]() The cardboard box of documents is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage.
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