Word: pahlevi
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...crimson tent was set up in the muddy Maragheh plain in honor of the royal presence. Baggy-pants peasants and their red-cheeked women and children crowded close to stare at Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, resplendent in the green uniform of army commander in chief. Suddenly, the Shah asked for the microphone, delivered an impromptu talk to the crowd. "I've been in this land reform business for over ten years," he said. "It's now reached its decisive stage. Believe me, it is no honor to be King of a poor and hungry people...
...Ebtehaj had been saying than what he had been doing. In speeches and to visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...
...France knows well that you are a sovereign who is essentially charitable toward his people," said Charles de Gaulle to visiting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran. Anyone who can count palaces also knows that the charitable Shah is immensely wealthy. Until he began parceling out the royal estates to needy peasants ten years ago, his lands alone measured almost 2,000,000 acres and included 2,000 villages. In 1958 the Shah set up the Pahlevi Foundation (orphanages, hospitals), and last week he transformed part of the foundation into an irrevocable religious trust. In the process, a list...
...such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...
Perhaps the most discouraged observer of the election farce was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 41, who rules as well as reigns in Iran. The Shah would dearly like a reasonable facsimile of democracy in his tortured land, but still wants to run things, and choose ministers, himself. Four years ago, he allowed the creation of an opposition party, and a number of his supporters in Parliament happily obliged. When last August's elections were too crudely rigged by the government, he ordered them annulled. Last week the Shah wearily suspended two provincial governors for crudely flagrant "deviations from regular...