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...long ago Reza Pahlevi, the King of Kings, the Shah of Shahs, self-made Monarch & Boss of Persia, looked upon neighboring Russia's Five Year plan and found much of it good. What most strongly impressed His Majesty was the titanic bargaining power in world markets of a nation which, like Soviet Russia, places its entire foreign trade in the hands of a State Monopoly...
Small Switzerland, where the Conference met, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of narcotics, with Turkey a potent rival. Opium poppies are raised without limit in China and Persia, a fact which sorely vexes Indian poppy growers who are now forced by the British Government to cut down their acreage 10% each year. U. S. experts boast that U. S.-manufactured narcotics are found in only 1% of U. S. raids, almost never found in raids abroad. These facts, the U.S. delegation will argue at Geneva, suggest that U. S. methods of supervising and limiting the manufacture...
Quite alone in the courtyard of a mosque, Her Majesty the Queen of Persia recently raised her veil...
...marched a tall, tough, wiry man who has travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...
Dwindling 10,000. Like the anabasis of Xenophon's 10,000 Greek mercenaries (hired by Persia's Cyrus II to fight his brother Artaxerxes), Alaska's famed Valley of 10,000 Smokes (created by Mt. Katmai blowing off its top) has dwindled to about 100 steaming earth vents.? Robert Fiske Griggs (George Washington...