Word: pahlavis
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From a loudspeaker in Pahlavi Square came the strains of a conga. Then the mob heard grimmer music as the firing started. Soldiers opened up with rifles and pistols; tanks lumbered into position and began firing. The Army was called out, stood by with loaded guns...
...Reza Pahlavi, ex-Shah of Iran, who has been confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, got permission to go to Canada with his family...
Twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, the Allies' straw man in Iran, proved last week that he is not too young to understand affairs. In his first statement for the U.S. press, he made clear that as ruler of Iran, which is the switchyard of Allied-Soviet traffic, he had sense enough to know on which side his throne was buttered...
Four months ago, Mohammed Shah's father, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi, abdicated, leaving his handsome, brilliant son a turbulent domain of seething tribes and conflicts which had been spiked together for 16 years mainly by the old Shah's iron will. He also left his son two potent guests who had just invaded Iran: the British and Russian Armies...
...Reza Pahlavi, who abdicated as Iran's Shah last month "for reasons of health," was deposited by the British on the tiny island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean "owing to the war situation." ∙∙ Henry Ford, who sent an ineffectual "peace ship" abroad last war, became the tenth citizen to sell or lease a yacht to the Navy for $1. (Two others: Vincent Astor, Major Edward Bowes.) ∙∙ Captain Lord Louis Mountbatfen (in command of the aircraft carrier Illustrious at Norfolk Navy Yard) declared in Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond...