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...March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a 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...
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...
...America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat any dog of an Iranian policeman who dared to halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled...