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...Salikh Pasha of Turkey, with horse, foot and artillery marched over the Persian frontier last week to surround the rebel Kurdish tribesmen who for the past two months have been holding out on the slopes of Mount Ararat against some 30,000 well-equipped Turkish troops (TIME, July 28). Persia protested the invasion formally, did nothing to stop...
Kurdish rebellions are nothing new for Turkish soldiers. For 400 years Kurdistan, a district which overlaps the present boundaries of eastern Turkey, Persia and Irak, has been rising in revolt against its Turkish conquerors. Kurdish hopes for a free state were raised at the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference only to be dashed at its close. Last important Kurd uprising...
Exhibits. Besides Persia, 19 countries will send specimens of Persian art to London. From Egypt will go treasures of Cairo Museum and the Khedivial library, from Russia famed silver, gold, bronze Sassanian† vessels. Museums and private collections in the U. S. (including Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute), and in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland will contribute Persian pieces...
...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
...First International Persian exhibit was held in 1926 at Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia in conjunction with the U. S. sesquicentennial. †In A. D. 224-651 Persia was called Sassania...