Word: reza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiscretions of Ahmadi. Iran's young Shah Mohamed Reza apparently was less cautious than Gavam. War Minister General Sepahbod Amir Ahmadi had an interview with the Shah and then blood-&-thundered to U.S. newsmen that Iranians would fight any overt act of the Russians. Foreign Office officials shook their heads in disapproval. "How silly" said one. "The Russians can be here in one hour." To the question: "Will Iran really fight?" the answer was an Oriental shrug of the shoulders. Two days later, red-faced General Ahmadi repudiated his words, blamed them on a "faulty translation...
...Fawzia, Too. The old Shah saw to it that Mohamed Reza on his return to Teheran had a plentiful supply of mistresses. When the time came for the Crown Prince to marry, nothing was too good for him. His bride was Fawzia, 17-year-old sister of Egypt's King Farouk, as beautiful a princess as a prince could wish. They had only one child, a daughter called Shahnaz ("the pet of the Shah"), born in October 1940. Thereafter, it became apparent that the Shah's tastes were quantitative rather than qualitative Fawzia, whose family with a century...
King in Crisis. Preoccupied by these personal problems and pleasures, the Shah, Mohamed Reza, was scarcely the man to steer his country through a crisis. His Majlis (Parliament) of feudal landlords was not much help. Many of the abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran...
...Shah, Mohamed Reza had to do his diplomatic best. In occasional interviews he spoke hopefully to British and U.S. correspondents of democracy and postwar progress. When cabinets fell (a not infrequent occurrence), he labored dutifully to find a premier who would satisfy the conflicting requirements of the outspoken, hardheaded Russian ambassador, Mikhail A. Maximov, and the reticent, equally hardheaded British ambassador, Sir Reader William Bullard. At palace parties the balance was preserved with similar delicacy. U.S. Ambassador Wallace Murray would be invited to hear an American soprano, the Soviet ambassador, a Russian pianist, the British ambassador, a British actress...
...back Britain against Russia, the Shah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, with the fatalism of his race, might well ponder the philosophy of inevitability. Without much help from the Shah, Iran's fate would probably be decided at Mos cow's Big Three meeting. Nor was it likely that sweet reason would play much part in the settlements...