Word: reza
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This week the most belligerently neutral country of Asia was neutral no longer. For 15 years Iran's Reza Shah Pahlavi had successfully played off British, Russian and other European interests against each other, but now Britain and Russia were working together. Into Iran from Iraq in the west marched a British column. More British troops landed at Bandar Shahpur, southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway. To the north Red Army troops began their long trek through the mountains into Iran from Russian Armenia. In India's northwest province of Baluchis tan other British forces stood ready...
...King of Kings, Shadow of the Almighty, Vice Regent of God and Center of the Universe, is a tough, foxy old man, better known as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ever since his Government signed a trade agreement with Adolf Hitler's in April last year Germans have poured into Iran. Last week Britain and Russia turned heat on the Shah to start them pouring out. By week's end a token trickle of some 60 out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 had dribbled over the Turkish border...
...Reza Shah Pahlavi is Iran's equivalent of Turkey's late, great KamÂl Atatiirk. Both men were rough soldiers who rescued their countries from the rule of nincompoop despots, strove to make them great. Almost singlehanded during the past 20 years, the Shah has mastered Iran...
Before he ascended the famed Peacock Throne, the Shah's name was Reza Khan. The Pahlavi he added means "Parthian" in Persian. The phrase "a Parthian shot" refers to the classic Parthian archers' tactic of shooting arrows over their shoulders as they fled. Last week, before he started shoving out Germans, the Shah first told the Allies that to do so would violate Iranian neutrality. The British will be contented to have him continue firing over his shoulder as long as he keeps the Germans moving...
Born. To Crown Princess Fawziya, 19, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, and Crown Prince Mohammed Reza of Iran, 21: their first child, a daughter...