Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Iranian Foreign Office, the U. S. is not an important nation. Iran's best diplomats are sent to Moscow, Afghanistan and Britain. Until he was suddenly elevated to the post of chargé d'affaires, M. Hossein Ghods was a diffident, nervous little man who tiptoed about the Legation in Washington, and whose chief cross was the fact that his Minister's British wife did not like him, made him use the servants' entrance...
...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 his high Iranian caste and release...
...satisfied by an apology from Maryland's Governor Harry Whinna Nice and the dismissal of the constable (later stealthily re-hired), the King of Kings three months ago recalled the Khan Djalal. Last week the King of Kings ordered the Iranian Legation in Washington and the Iranian Consulates in Manhattan and Chicago permanently closed, thus thrusting the U. S. into diplomatic limbo. This action was authoritatively attributed to the Persian potentate's ire at what he considered the disrespectful and humiliating treatment of himself and his country in the U. S. Press...
...London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its second page a studio portrait of the King of Kings and a caption lifted intact from the Iran Government handouts which describe that monarch as born "of a very noble Persian family ... of the purest element of the Iranian race...
Abrupt and secretive, His Majesty at this juncture last 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...