Word: reza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lithe, svelte Fawzia, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, was every bit as Westernized as her friend Farida. She never learned to like her new home. Mohamed Reza Pahlevi built her a palace in Teheran and cast off two mistresses to show his devotion, but it did no good. Fawzia bore him one child-a girl-but she refused to speak his language or attend public functions...
...Mutual Accord. In 1945, pleading ill health, she left Persia for a visit to Egypt. She never came back. Mohamed Reza blamed her brother Farouk for influencing her against him. Meanwhile, the young Shah's father, tough old self-made Reza Shah Pahlevi, died in exile in South Africa and Mohamed Reza made arrangements to bring his body back to Persia. The body was duly shipped via Cairo, where the Egyptians sidetracked it into a small local mosque. Ever since then Egyptians and Persians have been dickering over a suitable divorce settlement for Fawzia. "No settlement, no body...
Last week the strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
Young Mohamed Reza Shah felt helpless to do much himself. He has not yet won two political reforms he wants: a Senate (provided for in the constitution but never yet created) to check the Majlis; power to dismiss the Majlis and order new elections. Complained the Shah recently: "Here I am-the Shah of Persia-and I have less power than any man on earth. I'd like to have just half the power of the King of Sweden...
...Hamid Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia's disappearing 16-year-old brother (TIME, July 7, Sept. 29), was at it again. A week after the student prince materialized in Hollywood (after vanishing from a Washington, D.C. school), he vanished again, this time with brother Mahmoud's Cadillac convertible. Police picked him up in nearby Burbank, Calif., quickly passed him back to Mahmoud, who quickly passed him back to Washington (by air) for a fresh start...