Word: pahlevi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...
Once a Cossack trooper, His Majesty Riza Shah Pahlevi, King of Kings, showed in converse with the Turkish Dictator his customary habit of arriving swiftly at obstinate conclusions. Several times Dictator seemed vexed by Dictator, but only in political converse. When the talk shifted to soldiering both were in their element. With a strutting pageant of Turkish soldiery and Air Force maneuvers, Host Kemal so diverted Guest Pahlevi that the King of Kings prolonged his official visit...
Dictators to earthquake. Neither the King of Kings nor President Kemal lacks personal courage. During the fêtes, rejoicings, fireworks, skewered lamb and champagne at Ankara last week news came of severe earthquakes in Western Turkey, the very region through which Host Kemal was about to escort Guest Pahlevi. Neither showed the slightest desire to cancel these plans. The royal Persian junket became an earnest inspection trip through the shaken area down to Smyrna with homeless families watching the Near East's two Strong...
King of Kings. Such flattery is unnecessary. Riza Pahlevi is self-made and Persians would be proud of the fact were they not so thoroughly Oriental. The parents of the King of Kings were honest peasants. Their village had to send half a dozen young men each year to serve Persia's dissolute Shah and strong young Riza, born on the shores of the Caspian Sea, was mustered into a Persian regiment of Cossacks. He tasted battle chiefly against bandits and won steady promotion to the rank of Sartip with 3,000 Cossacks under his command. For a fateful...
...memory. To do this he had to detach a section of the Ministry of Finance and incorporate it into the Ministry of War. That feat showed who was really No. 1 man in Persia. In 1923 frightened Ahmed Shah fled to the fleshpots of Paris. Two years later Riza Pahlevi, by that time Premier, was elected by the Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent of the Majlis. Always domineering, he now became the utter autocrat and one day even kicked his first-born and beloved son Crown Prince Shapur...