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...Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran's soldier-dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had already ordered his gold, silver & rosewood private...
...five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled workers have been working on the Trans-Iranian for the past four years, expect to finish the line in 1938. The $125,000,000 cost is being met by import taxes on sugar and tea, royalties on oil-which Shah Reza recovered for his countrymen...
...French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King of Kings, who by this time had ordered Persia to be called Iran, heard that his Envoy...
...headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister to France. Mirza Abolghas-sem Nadjm "for an explanation," and withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which opens...
received permission from Reza Shah Pahlavi (see p. 20) to build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned...