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...evening about 20 years ago, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, home on vacation from his elegant school in Switzerland, stood in the gardens of the ornate Marble Palace gazing into the waters of a pool. His father, the Shah of Persia, came upon him and demanded: "What are you doing, son?" "Nothing, father, just standing here thinking," answered the boy. The Shah's face clouded, and he roared: "Thinking! God damn it, one day you're going to be Shah and you'll have to act, not think." He booted his son into the water...
Mossadegh had apparently decided to bring his growing differences with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to a head. The Premier was convinced (with reason) that one center of resistance to his rule lay in the Shah's court. He resented the Shah's distribution of royal lands to the poor (because it provoked demands for general land reform), and wanted to ease his financial woes by cutting into the Shah's $720,000-a-year government allotment and his $2,000,000 a year from other sources...
Then because of General Naguib's coup in Egypt, Richardson flew to Cairo, where he spent most of the next three weeks. Meanwhile, part-time correspondents in a number of capitals kept TIME informed of developments in their countries. From Teheran, Reza Kavoussi had sent in a running report of the street violence protesting the fall of Mossadegh. In Cairo. Mohamed Wagdi covered the opening hours of the Egyptian coup alone, then helped Richardson cover subsequent events...
Prince Gholam Reza Pahlevi, 20-year-old brother of the Shah of Iran and a first lieutenant in the armored section of the Iranian army, arrived in Manhattan bound for Fort Knox, Ky. and a 14-week course in U.S. armored tactics...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...