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British goods are still boycotted widely in India despite the Gandhi-Irwin truce. Last week Bombay despatches reported that Indian merchants are now clearing their shelves of British cloth by "selling it in Persia, Irak and East Africa at less than production costs." Indian cloth mills at Bombay are enjoying boom prosperity, running 24 hours a day to keep pace with the demand, while more and more British mills close down in depressed, despairing Lancashire...
Comrade Molotov, more specific, opened last week by stating that Russia's relations with Turkey are "most friendly"; with Japan, Persia and Afghanistan "also friendly"; with Italy "satisfactory"; with Germany "improved"; with Great Britain "fair." Poland, Comrade Molotov bluntly called a "vassal of France." France he mentioned as "the greatest menace to world peace-the European powder magazine...
...League of Nations is trying desultorily and ineffectively to restrict the growth of the particular poppy from which opium, morphine and heroin is manufactured and the manufacture of narcotics. Persia will not stop poppy culture because a large part of its population depends on the business and other nations are competing. China's imperfect government cannot control the production. And because China and Persia do practically nothing, Great Britain has difficulty in forcing India to restrict its poppy crops by 10% each year...
...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...
After scrutinizing the famed "Peacock Throne," the experts informed His Majesty that some substitution of paste jewels had been made by the weak, do-nothing former Royal House of Persia which he overthrew in 1925. "Then, gentlemen," cried the new Shah, dynamic, dramatic, "you must buy me other jewels!" What is left genuine of the Peacock Throne today may be "conservatively valued," according to the experts, thus: Headpiece $10,000,000 Arms & Legs 25,000,000 Tailpiece...