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This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head...
...Shadow of God." Formerly divided into spheres of influence by Imperial Russia and Imperial Britain, Iran shook off Russian influence when Cossack officers retired from the country at the end of the World War, but waited five years for the British-officered South Persia Rifles to disband. With a newly-created army of 40,000 men, commanded in person by the then Reza Khan, supplied with secondhand rifles, machine guns, tanks, Iran first dealt with her own warring, rebellious Kurds, Kashgais and Bakhtiaris, then began shaking a determined fist at Great Britain...
...McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry "monkey drill," a blind jumping horse...
...What President Roosevelt called "a perfect stand of Cossack alfalfa" on his Georgia farm, was grown from seed raised by a Jewish seedsman...
...Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain who escaped from Soviet Russia...