Word: khans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Persia last week revealed the text of the proclamation deposing Shah Ahmad of Persia, which the Persian Dictator, Premier Reza Khan, caused to be adopted (TIME, Nov. 9) with the evident purpose of making himself the supreme arbiter of Persia in name as well as in fact...
...Shah Ahmad declared: I am, and remain the legitimate constitutional sovereign of Persia, and I await the hour of my return, to my country to serve my people, whose noble character and loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those...
...been criticized in the past for "abandoning" Persia to Dictator Reza Khan, but last week he referred to the coups by which Reza Khan has made himself master of Persia (TIME, Nov. 9) as follows: "Reza Khan, after winning over the army, has consistently abused all public powers in the community, and violated the constitutional laws of the empire." The Shah explained his own long residence in Europe, which has been attributed to a taste for European "high life," by saying: "I have thought it necessary, in order to avoid all international agitation, which would have caused my country...
...that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia...
...Teheran, the Persian Assembly, or "Majlis," adopted a resolution deposing the present Kajar dynasty "for the sake of the national welfare," by a vote of 80 to 5. The resolution "entrusted the Government to Reza Khan"- to exactly what extent is not known. Cables report that he has assumed "the office and rank of Shah"; and contrarily that "the Majlis is deliberating as to what shall be the permanent form of Persia's Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that...