Word: persia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guardedly, in London, that the present activities of Colonel Lawrence began last April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
...many this appeared as peace without victory. Standard Oil and Dutch Shell face each other in nearly every oil-producing country in the world, in the fields of Mexico and Central America, in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Persia, the Dutch East Indies, in the U. S. itself.* The Shell Union Corp., American subsidiary of Dutch Shell, has assets listed at $348,129,212, itself produces more oil than the great enemy of its parent company. The war goes on, though quietly. Major battles, with all war correspondents on hand, are perhaps ended...
Princess Bibesco (not to be confused with the writer-daughter of Margot Asquith) presided at 18 over the Rumanian legation in Teheran when her husband was minister to Persia. She prefers living and writing in Paris...
Soon Californians heard how Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
...Took approving cognizance of a treaty signed, last week, at Teheran, the Capital of Persia, between representatives of British King-Emperor George V and Persian King-of-Kings Reza Shah Pahlevi. The treaty recognizes Persia's complete autonomy in levying tariffs upon British or other goods, and lays the groundwork for negotiations looking to the penetration of Persia by British built railways, airways...