Word: pahlevi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
...even that did not result in an exchange of representatives. In fact no quarrel occurred. When the Sassanian dynasty fell 1,300 years ago all permanent relations with foreign countries were broken off. Successively Persia was ruled by various Arab conquerors, the Turks, Afghans. Recently Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi, who has been anxious to restore diplomatic relations after the 1,300-year lapse, discovered that Nanking was also willing. Hossein Khan Keyostevan's orders promptly followed...
Persia's wild-riding, self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi never denied that the original Anglo-Persian concession was not factually binding. One of his predecessors, paunchy Shah Muzzafar-uddin, in 1901 signed away Persian oil rights to 500,000 sq. mi. of territory for $20,000. Canceling the concession last November Reza Shah announced as his excuse that a modern Persian Government must not be held to acts committed "prior to the establishment of a constitutional regime," i. e., the Government of Reza Shah...
...trade barriers leveled, believes the U. S. should consume at least $900,000,000 more of imported goods than it does so that other nations could pay their debts and buy more GM products. At present he is wangling for a monopoly from Persia's Reza Shah Pahlevi...
Scapegoat of the Benes agreement, according to news from Teheran, is Abdol Hussein Khan Teymourtache whom the Shah has dismissed from office as his Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State. Twenty-two years ago, long before Reza Shah Pahlevi usurped the throne, young Abdol Teymourtache, a clerk in the Persian Finance Ministry, was picked for advancement by the then U. S. Fiscal Adviser to Persia, W. Morgan Schuster. Young Abdol rose steadily to No. 1 court rank...