Word: persia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While mingling with his people, incognito, one night last week, the Shah of Persia was assaulted by ruffians, who fled in screaming terror when his dirty cloak flew open and revealed the jeweled orders blazing on his breast...
...that ruthless Comrade Josef Stalin is deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah of Persia, on a recent visit to Moscow. It was thought politic to start a paper chain of commerce between Moscow and Teheran, then and there-even at the cost...
...hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
...caught the international itch for concluding peace treaties. Last week, he proclaimed, as President of Turkey, that Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey had signed a treaty of "security and conciliation" with Italy and treaties of "security, conciliation, collaboration and active aid in case of attack" with Persia and Afghanistan...
...importance of these documents is incalculable. The first would seem to set at rest the many alarms of those who have thought that Italy had colonial designs on Turkey. The pacts with Persia and Afghanistan are fresh documentary evidence of the fact that there is now in formation a Middle East Entente...