Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liaquat, who visited the U.S. last year, was a friend of the West, and an enemy of Communism. An Oxford-educated lawyer, who commonly wore Western business clothes and a Persian lamb cap, Liaquat helped the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah achieve the separation of Pakistan as a state in the 1947 partition of India, and succeeded Jinnah as its ruler. In the restive world of Islam, where the way of the moderate is hard, he was the 13th political figure since 1945, and the fifth this year, to be brought down by an assassin...
...some Texas oil leases. He salvaged the money so well that when he retired at 80 his empire (still 41% owned by the Mellon family) stretched from Venezuela, where only Standard's (NJ.) Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights to all of Denmark, and his global marketing and producing apparatus embraced subsidiaries through most of Europe, Africa and Brazil, plus proven U.S. reserves...
When Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons last July that His Majesty's government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial roar. From Cyprus to the Persian Gulf, British paratroops, marines and warships stood by. They were ready to go into action if Iran tried to seize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s huge refinery...
Anyone who has lived there, and is honest, knows that the "native" is no less human and peculiar than the average Lett, Finn, Parsee, Mongol and Persian; not to mention American, Briton or Russian...
...denounce it. It "must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less valorous or less courageous than the Persian nation which spat in the face of imperialism...