Word: reza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shah of Persia, dynamic, self-made Reza Pahlevi, onetime Cossack trooper, Britain last year hurled an oily ultimatum...
...decline to answer!" snapped the British Government's spokesman, but tough Reza Shah Pahlevi's morale was not shaken. He ignored Britain's ultimatum, let Dec. 15 pass, sent his Minister of Justice speeding to Geneva where, most fortunately, the League Council told off famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perennial Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," to try to calm the Persians and the British...
This job Dr. Benes handsomely completed last week by announcing an agreement secretly arrived at. With no more talk of ultimatums Britain agrees that Anglo-Persian's concession has been canceled. Reza Shah Pahlevi agrees that Anglo-Persian shall continue to work the oil fields while negotiating a new concession. Progress and perhaps the signing of this concession will be reported back to the League next...
Scapegoat of the Benes agreement, according to news from Teheran, is Abdol Hussein Khan Teymourtache whom the Shah has 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...
Riding back next day over the Elburz Mountains, the "King of Kings" forged ahead of his suite, who found a snowstorm in Firuzkuh Pass too much for them. Pushing on to Teheran with a small picked escort Reza Shah Pahlevi stamped into his Palace, ordered every Persian newspaper to print what had been suppressed. To Britons it seemed impossible that the horsy Persian would act thus unless he had potent backing. Whose? The London Press bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form...