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...Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Atlantic & Pacific crosser, flying to marry Mary Powell at Melbourne; Captain F. R. Matthews, who crashed between Bankok and Singapore; Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, who intends to go around the world by easy stages. Last week her motor failed over the mountains near Jask, Persia. Courteous hillmen brought her mechanical...
...Paris oilmen learned after a survey early this year that imports from Russia have risen until Russia ranks third after the U. S. and Persia as an oil purveyor to France, supplies 13.8% of the national consumption...
Arthur Nicolson entered the Foreign Office in 1870, left it in 1910. Between those two dates he held increasingly important posts in Berlin, Peking, Constantinople, Athens, Persia, Budapest, Morocco, Madrid, St. Petersburg. Friendly at first to Germany and fearing Russia's encroachments in the Near East, Nicolson came gradually to reverse this feeling, and ended by doing everything he could to strengthen the Anglo-Russian-French entente. He foresaw Germany's menace to England, but even during the War, "he was incensed by the theory . . . that Germany had provoked the War. . . . He was appalled by the Treaty...
...Mediterranean. Halfway between Persia and Egypt, near Loadikies, an old Greek colony, F. A. Schaeffer and Georges Chenet, French archeologists, found the unwieldy schoolbooks of a forgotten university. The books were clay tablets 4,000 years old covered with language lessons in four tongues: Assyro-Chaldean cuneiforms, the language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian...
...present uprising had money, modern arms. Other tribes not usually embroiled in the periodic Kurdish strivings for liberty were fighting against the Turks too. While Turkish military commanders proceeded with their tried and true formula in these affairs- burning villages, ruthlessly exterminating men, women and children-Turkish diplomats accused Persia of backing and even fomenting the Kurds. Persia swore innocence, and last week the Turkish officials made more interesting accusations. The real cause of the trouble near Ararat, they said, was not the Kurds' perennial desire for independence, but their new desire for Oil. Year ago Djevet Eyoub. Turkish...