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Despatches from Persia last week revealed the text of the proclamation deposing Shah Ahmad of Persia, which the Persian Dictator, Premier Reza Khan, caused to be adopted (TIME, Nov. 9) with the evident purpose of making himself the supreme arbiter of Persia in name as well as in fact...
...zenith of his power the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia was notorious as a faineant who allowed others to direct even his policies. A sharp question would probably have revealed that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia...
...some of his disbanded Cossack comrades about him, cajoled and coerced them into a little army. By the example of his extraordinary personal bravery, he spurred them on to acts of organized plunder which enabled him to pay them regularly and cement their loyalty. In February, 1921, he terrorized Persia into accepting him as her Minister of War; by October, 1923, he had become Premier and Dictator of Persia; last week the cables carried confused reports which apparently herald his metamorphosis from Dictator into Monarch...
...vote of 80 to 5. The resolution "entrusted the Government to Reza Khan"- to exactly what extent is not known. Cables report that he has assumed "the office and rank of Shah"; and contrarily that "the Majlis is deliberating as to what shall be the permanent form of Persia's Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that "the new Shah has ordered the price of bread reduced throughout the kingdom . . . proclaimed three holidays of rejoicing . . . [and] pensioned the former Shah and Royal...
Miscellaneous. The Assembly voted 11,000,000 gold francs for a new Secretariate and Assembly Hall. The present Secretariate is to be advertised for sale. 3) A League of Nations investigation of Persia's opium industry was authorized. 3) A Chilean resolution was passed under which an International Press Conference will be convoked by the League. Said M Hymans of Belgium. "The Press is a great power which has a permanent seat in the League of Nations." 4) Throughout the assembly a group of U. S. women headed by Mrs. James E. Neal of N. Y. kept freshly...