portrayed Iran and Iranians, but heaped criticism on the Iranian bureaucracy. "The American task in Persia" was highly influential in shaping American political opinion towards Iran. Commentaries on Iran appearing in American foreign policy journals, such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy Reports, or in leading journals such as Time magazine, frequently relied on Millspaugh’s accounts as a principal source. In 1942 Millspaugh headed another financial mission, this time clearly connected with the U. S. State Department. His mission was hampered again by internal political rivalries in Iran, the entrenched vested interests of the Iranian political elite (economic, military, political, and tribal), and frequent cabinet reshuffles in Tehran with seesawing political orientations (with 11 prime ministers between 1941 and 1946). The financial mission under Millspaugh’s supervision again became a source of irritation between Tehran and Washington and had to be terminated in 1945. In 1946, his second book on Iran, Americans in Persia, was published by the policy think-tank Brookings Institution. Replete with “clinical” metaphors, and speaking from experience from his days working for the Shah's government, Millspaugh this time was more pessimistic and critical of Iranians, portraying them as incapable of self-government: "Persia cannot be left to herself, even if the Russians were to keep their hands off politically. ...Persia has never yet proved its capacity for independent self-government." (p 243 of his second book) Bibliography The American task in Persia, New York, Arno Press, 1925. Americans in Persia, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1946. Crime control by the national government, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1937. Democracy, efficiency, stability; an appraisal of American government, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1942. Haiti under American control, 1915–1930, Boston, Mass., World peace foundation. 1931. Local democracy and crime control, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1936. Party organization and machinery in Michigan since 1890, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1917. Peace plans and American choices; the pros and cons of world order, Washington, D.C., The Brookings institution, 1942. Public welfare organization, The Brookings institution, 1935. Toward efficient democracy; the question of governmental organization, Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution, 1949. See also United States-Iran relations Morgan Shuster Famous Americans in Iran Sources U. S.-Iranian Relations: 1911-1951, M. Bonakdarian The Contemporary Political History of Iran, Dr. S. Jalaledin Madani. 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volume 2 p 661-664.