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...France knows well that you are a sovereign who is essentially charitable toward his people," said Charles de Gaulle to visiting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran. Anyone who can count palaces also knows that the charitable Shah is immensely wealthy. Until he began parceling out the royal estates to needy peasants ten years ago, his lands alone measured almost 2,000,000 acres and included 2,000 villages. In 1958 the Shah set up the Pahlevi Foundation (orphanages, hospitals), and last week he transformed part of the foundation into an irrevocable religious trust. In the process, a list...
...family, such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...
...date-palmed Borazjan, workers closed down the bazaar in a strike against election irregularities. In arid Shahabad, citizens who had found bast in a telegraph office were wiring protests to the Shah. Others contemptuously voted for the Shah's three-month-old son, Crown Prince Reza. Street battles in Teheran between police and antigovernment demonstrators ended with 18 hurt and 80 arrested. The cops boldly hurled tear-gas grenades at one street-corner group and then apologized on learning that they were waiting...
Perhaps the most discouraged observer of the election farce was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 41, who rules as well as reigns in Iran. The Shah would dearly like a reasonable facsimile of democracy in his tortured land, but still wants to run things, and choose ministers, himself. Four years ago, he allowed the creation of an opposition party, and a number of his supporters in Parliament happily obliged. When last August's elections were too crudely rigged by the government, he ordered them annulled. Last week the Shah wearily suspended two provincial governors for crudely flagrant "deviations from regular...
...harsh and promised that he would give his son a democratic education. But as long as the Shah hangs onto his throne, the boy will not escape the trappings of royalty. Some time within a year or so, when the Shah celebrates his own much delayed coronation, young Prince Reza Cyrus will be perched atop his father's knee on the Peacock Throne...