Word: foroughi
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...again in the Foreign News of Sept. 16 issue of your weekly trash on p. 25, under the news of "The League," I find an account of His Excellency Ali Khan Foroughi. Mr. Editor, I have the pleasure to notify your most mistaken honor (!) that Mr. Foroughi is not a prince; he is a world figure today, but he is not a prince. As a leader of the Persian nationalists, we glorify in him. much more so because, he has risen to an international figure, not with a royal ancestry but rather with ancestors who were commoners...
Secondly, Mr. Editor, I do not see any reason for a sound-minded editor to play with the personalities and looks of other people. If Mr. Foroughi has a bushy black beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small...
...handled the gavel as the Assembly of the League of Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
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