Word: persia
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...Washington last week a slender, dark girl saw with her own eyes that Persia had powerful friends in the U.S. Several hundred people thronged the elegant, red brick Persian Embassy to shake hands with Her Imperial Highness Ashraf Pahlevi, twin sister of Persia's ruling Shah. President Truman received her in the White House, and Bess Truman was there too. This week the State Department scheduled a big, brilliant reception...
...princess and her sister Fatmeh were in the U.S. merely to study the Red Cross and other welfare bodies, but Washington had political motives for being nice. Soviet Russia, quiescent since last winter, was rumbling again on Persia's northern border. Persia might need help...
...Shah of Persia's beauteous twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlevi, who said she wanted to "familiarize myself with methods of social work," was the latest Mohammedan celebrity to set out on a U.S. visit...
...other hand, U.N. still commanded the respect of statesmen because it was a forum for mustering world opinion. The organization's high point had come in April 1946, when it made the Red Army get out of Persia. Thus, thanks largely to U.N. and its imposing moral force, Persia had a Government free of Russian domination...
...Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain...