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...court of the King of Kings, swart, dynamic Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, arrived last week news which seemed to good Iranians almost unbelievable. Some natives of America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat...
Last March, by decree of His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, the name of Persia was changed to the name by which that country's natives have always known it-Iran. Last week stockholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., controlled by the British Government, met and changed their company's name to Anglo-Iranian...
...Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi decreed that from your next New Year's Day onward the name of Persia shall be Iran...
Swagger Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, "King of Kings," itched with impatience last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly...
Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...