Word: bootsman
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Boots for the Bootsman...
...London British public opinion grumbled that the royal bootsman should himself be given the boot. Increasingly fed up were the Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran...
...Pillaging the Iranian countryside were mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...
...This week it was reported the royal bootsman had abdicated...
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