Word: persia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persia, third* largest opium growing country in the world, issued a statement to the effect that she was ready to abolish opium growing for the culture of silk, cotton, tea, tobacco, hemp and flax, provided she were accorded a loan of $10,000,000 for 20 years. In private, she let it be known that it was to the U. S. that she looked for this money...
...opium is manufactured mainly in India, China, Persia and Turkey from the juice of the poppy. The annual production is about 3,900 tons, but not more than 350 tons a year is necessary to medicine and science. The cultivation of poppies, therefore, is a great source of revenue to these states...
...rule, inadequate. A third disadvantage, in countries that set more store by outward show than simple-living Uncle Sam, has been the loss of prestige and dignity due to the poor housing of our emissaries, even as compared to that of such countries as Siam, Poland, Cuba, Persia...
...note, a diplomatic note, was sent to the Persian Government by Secretary of State Hughes. Diplomatic conversations are, of course, polite to excess ; they have also been defined as "veiled menaces." Hear, then, the substance of a truly diplomatic note, sent when Persia, after hemming and hawing, had finally executed the murderers of a U. S. Consul...
...United States Government is gratified. It is gratified because Persia passed sentences on those who murdered our Consul Imbrie. It acknowledges the payment by the Persian Government of $60,000 to Mr. Imbrie's widow. It calls attention to the fact that there is one question outstanding between the two Governments, namely, that Persia will reimburse our Government for the expense of sending a warship to bring home Mr. Imbrie's body. The Persian Government has already agreed to this. It is anticipated that this cost will approximate...