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Only three days before a Royal Dutch plane had cracked up in Persia. Six days before a KLM Fokker had killed six in a crash near Amsterdam. Seven were killed in a crash in April, and six died in the wreck of KLM's famed Uiver ("Stork") last December in Syria...
...might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis Ababa was ordered First Secretary Cornelius Van H. Engert of the U. S. Legation at Cairo, the State Department having discovered that he has served in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Persia and Afghanistan and speaks languages likely to be more useful in Ethiopia than Chinese...
...Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered. Later she heard a braying donkey...
Last March, by decree of His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, the name of Persia was changed to the name by which that country's natives have always known it-Iran. Last week stockholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., controlled by the British Government, met and changed their company's name to Anglo-Iranian...
...territory, the Aga Khan earned the gratitude of the British Government, the right to a salute of eleven guns from British warships by the way in which he influenced the loyalties of his spiritual followers during the War. From his grandfather, kin and onetime crony of Mohammed Shah of Persia, he inherited the best string of Arabian horses in the East. Twice married, the Aga Khan's present wife is the onetime dressmaking daughter of a French innkeeper...