Word: persia
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...official Soviet reply last week was flatly to refuse apology, flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans do). Not backing down in the least, Izvestia hailed Persia's defiance of Britain last week declaring, "Its repercussions in the East will help deepen the cracks in the shattered structure of a decrepit British Empire...
...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...
...Shah Pahlevi had struck so suddenly that Anglo-Persian Board Chairman Sir John Cadman was not in London to receive the blow but in San Francisco. To California newshawks, long-jawed Sir John said with perfect aplomb. "All this is not so serious as it might appear, inasmuch as Persia lacks power to cancel the concession...
Inasmuch as Persia is a sovereign state, Sir Henri Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch (which is associated with Anglo-Persian in distributing oil), rushed around to the Persian Legation in London. He was invited with effusive courtesy to dine. He dined...
...solitary Englishman, William Knox D'Arcy, who confirmed tales of oil while wandering over the Persian deserts in 1900. With one fortune, grubbed from Australian gold fields, already in his pocket, he wangled from the then ruling Shah a concession covering four-fifths of all Persia. The ignorant Shah was glad indeed to get $20,000 cash. Berlin's Deutsche Bank, Standard Oil and other powers soon were fighting for the privilege of buying D'Arcy's amazing concession. Burmah Oil Co. finally bagged it for Britain in 1909 and set it up as Anglo-Persian...