Word: elkton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...
Because constables at a place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran...
...stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Ghaffar Khan Djalal by some uncouth "Marylanders" in an unheard of place called Elkton (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). When his car was stopped for some thing called "speeding," the Khan and his beautiful, blonde English wife naturally struck aside the peasant constable. The Khan had been manacled and haled before a Justice of the Peace who had somehow had the discernment to recognize...
Iran's vigilant eye last week remained cocked with suspicious disapproval upon the natives of remote Elkton, Md., in which hamlet the Envoy Extraordinary and the Minister Plenipotentiary of Iran, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, was grossly insulted and subjected to being manacled like a criminal (TIME, Dec. 9). The natives who thus violated international comity contended that the Great Khan's car had been speeding. When he produced his diplomatic credentials, saying "I am the Minister of Iran," they, in abysmal ignorance, exclaimed: "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher." The Great Khan was avenged...
...week recalled the Great Khan to Iran, disclosing neither his reasons nor whether a new Iranian Minister will be sent to Washington. At the Iranian legation it was inferred that the King of Kings had been vexed by the attitude of Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the original "Elkton Outrage." Chatting with reporters, Mr. Hull said that the diplomatic immunity of Ambassadors and Ministers should not be considered by them license to violate, but instead reason for observing, laws with particular scrupulousness. This appeared to most Iranian aristocrats both unreasonable and silly. During Prohibition the entire corps diplomatique exercised...