Word: iran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Away from London last week slunk snubbed Emperor Haile Selassie (see p. 18), but glad British hands were extended by King Edward and many another in London to His Highness Sheik Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, ruler of the Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf of Iran...
...Sheik's goodwill is of vital importance to Britain. Very quietly last year the Persian Gulf base of the Royal Navy was moved from Iran's famed Bushire to Bahrein and thus outside the immediate domain of Iran's King of Kings. The Sheik also allows British planes flying to India to use one of his islands as a landing base. Few years ago the Sheik permitted Standard Oil of California to set up on the island a subsidiary called Bahrein Petroleum Co., which is now booming along with some 1,000,000 barrels production annually...
...Fuad of I, all who died nations late that in failed April, to use was king force of in (1 applying Egypt, 2- sanctions Arabia, 3 against Morocco, Italy). 4 Libya, 5 Iran...
...political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine, Turkish, Brazilian and Chinese Ambassadors and the Ministers of Cuba, Finland, Iraq, Nepal, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay, and Paraguay's charge d'affaires. Also the Deans of Westminster and St. Paul's, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth...
...September 1934 a new group of white colonists was sent to Wrangel Island. Leader was Konstantin Semenchuk, who had been transferred from a comfortable diplomatic post in Iran. With him went his wife Nadejda, as strange and sultry a character as he. Colonists got their first inkling of what was coming when Governor Semenchuk assembled them upon arrival, shouted: "Up here I am everything. I have all the rights, up to shooting people...