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...life (26 years) sallow, dewy-eyed Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, had been anxious to please, an attitude largely conditioned by his autocratic father, the late, tough Reza Shah Pahlevi. Like his ten brothers and sisters, Mohamed Reza grew up in awe and admiration of the domineering old martinet who rose from the soil to root a dynasty in nothing more substantial than the high, dry air of Teheran's political intrigue...
...Reza Shah came from a family of small landholders in Mazanderan Province, rose to be colonel in the Iranian Army. When the decrepit regime of Ahmed Shah tottered after World War I, Reza Khan became successively Commander in Chief of the Iranian Army. Minister of War, Premier, finally Shah of Shahs-all in less than five years...
Young Mohamed Reza was brought up in a palace atmosphere of despotic splendor. From Iran's jewel-studded Peacock Throne his father grimly ordered his enemies murdered or jailed, ruled his "court with a caprice that ranged from slapping ministers in the face to kicking subjects in the crotch. (Once, rumor had it, the young Prince himself felt the royal boot and landed in a palace fountain...
What were Russia's interests in the Middle East? This was the biggest problem of all. If King Farouk doubted that Russia had any such interests, his brother-in-law, Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi, could quickly undeceive him. Scarcely three months ago Russia had overturned a Teheran government that refused the Kremlin oil concessions in Iran (TIME, Nov. 20). And at 25, King Farouk was politically old enough to know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian...
...bronze plaque for the City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...