Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerhardi billed his play as a "satire on reincarnation," equipping it with twentieth-century characters incarnated from every other reasonable period of history: Catherinc the Great, Genghis Khan, and others of their ilk. Perhaps his idea was worthwhile; at any rate his results were...
Playing opposite him will be Miss Claire Gilman, Radcliffe '47, who in the course of the action has an illegitimate child by Kings-Cross. In some previous existence, however, either as the daughter of Ghenghis Khan or as a Japanese juggler-girl, she had been his wife, so Watch and Warders in the audience will be able to go home unoffended, and the play will be allowed to continue on the beards for its entire four-night...
...soon, we tribesmen will tire of being tired, and then we will all turn to the Brother of Allah." To the Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesman, the Brother of Allah is his rifle. The warning was uttered by tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (220 Ibs.), handsome Mohamed Nasser Khan, 42, Khan of Khans, leader of southern Iran's warlike Qashqai nomads. They have always resisted attempts by a weak central government in Teheran to manage their affairs...
...Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
With or without British backing, Nasser Khan's expert cavalrymen (more than 10,000 strong) and their 150,000 fellow tribesmen might easily win concessions from Teheran. Most likely outcome: local autonomy for conservatives in the south, like that given last spring to leftists in the north...