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...Shams & Frauds. "In the Far East, the Soviet Union has dismantled the industries in Manchuria, has obstructed economic and political unification in Korea, and has not carried out its commitments for the return of Dairen to Chinese administration as a free port. . . . In the Middle East, Persia has been for some years in turmoil, first through Soviet occupation of its "northern territories, and then through Soviet-sponsored local attempts to separate those areas from Persia...
...Persia's strong man, who made himself Shah of Shahs, began his career as a private soldier. His son is now Shah...
Last week the election was still going on. But the Russians were no longer in northern Persia. The Russian-sponsored Tudeh Party had collapsed throughout Persia. Americans were now the vogue. Persians bought $1 million-a-year worth of shabby American secondhand suits. Persian women clamored for stilt-soled shoes and Hollywood hairdos. Sidewalk hawkers shouted "American nylons!" Fishmongers even cried "American fish...
Priority for Scuttling. With U.S. support, wily Gavam was not now so hard-pressed to please the Russians, and no longer so eager to sponsor the Russian oil agreement before a new Majlis. Troublesome tribesmen, who roam over two-thirds of Persia's barren land, gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern...
Tough as the problem looked, it was the kind of problem U.N. had been created to face. Last year, in Persia and elsewhere, direct clashes involving the Great Powers themselves put U.N. on the spot. Here was a much smaller, if equally distressing problem. If U.N. could not contribute to the solution of the Palestine problem, what could? And what would U.N. do about any of the disputes over houses and castles that flared or smoldered all over the world...