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Because Persia lies strategically at the side door of India and at the back door of Russia,* a struggle to dominate the Government of Persia was waged between British and Russian agents, up to the period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward...
...give up the key of a safe containing the personal papers, ciphers, codes, etc., of the official trade agent was assaulted by the police. Mail addressed to the official trade agent, which had just been brought by couriers, was carried off by the police. These proceedings are in flagrant violation of Article V of the trade agreement...
This act was, of course, in flagrant violation of diplomatic usage. Chang, however, knew that it would be condoned if not approved by non-Reds throughout the world. He was right. Immediately thereafter the Municipal Council of Occidentals who administer the international city at Shanghai employed "White Russian" mercenary soldiers to picket the Soviet Consulate and search all who left or entered. This, too, was in contravention of international usage., but in most non-Red countries was condoned if not approved. It was expected that translations of the documents seized from the Reds at Peking and Shanghai would amply justify...
...newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor of his full canonicals. Vexed by "flagrant defiance," the Bishop boomed forth thunderous Latin phrases, formally excommunicated the three news-venders. A controversy raged...
...study, Fabian Franklin, economist and likewise journalist, Mr. Sullivan's senior by 22 years, scanned the article. He was accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...