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...Shah of Persia, dynamic, self-made Reza Pahlevi, onetime Cossack trooper, Britain last year hurled an oily ultimatum...
...British Government are controlling shareholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., which had a concession to exploit Persia's oil fields. Dissatisfied with the royalties Persia was getting, her Shah canceled the concession (TIME, Dec. 12). The British ultimatum gave the Shah until Dec. 15 to reinstate...
...dismissed from office as his Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State. Twenty-two years ago, long before Reza Shah Pahlevi usurped the throne, young Abdol Teymourtache, a clerk in the Persian Finance Ministry, was picked for advancement by the then U. S. Fiscal Adviser to Persia, W. Morgan Schuster. Young Abdol rose steadily to No. 1 court rank...
...King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more, I beg Your Majesty to cancel their concession and order your subjects to operate the wells, thus reducing unemployment among them...
Themistocles imported cockfighting into Greece from Persia. Pedigrees of game-fowl are far more antique than those of any other pure-bred creature. Gamecocks would rather fight than breed or eat. They are trained as carefully as pugilists. First they chase barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers...