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...Reza Pahlavi, who abdicated as Iran's Shah last month "for reasons of health," was deposited by the British on the tiny island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean "owing to the war situation." ∙∙ Henry Ford, who sent an ineffectual "peace ship" abroad last war, became the tenth citizen to sell or lease a yacht to the Navy for $1. (Two others: Vincent Astor, Major Edward Bowes.) ∙∙ Captain Lord Louis Mountbatfen (in command of the aircraft carrier Illustrious at Norfolk Navy Yard) declared in Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond...
Next day a special session of Iran's pliant Parliament cheered at the news that Boss Reza had abdicated "for reasons of health." Parliament promptly sat his eldest son, 21-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, on the throne...
...Reza, a choleric old man, admitting officially to 65 years, probably closer to 75, had for 16 years fought to keep control of Iran. Now he well knew that, beaten by the British and Russians, he could not deal with the domestic turmoil that his defeat would produce. By abdicating he at least saw his son to the throne...
...young Shah faced more disturbing changes at home. Iran's tribesmen, whose tradition leans as much to polite banditry as it does to husbandry, knew that Reza's Army had been captured and his tiny Navy sunk. The Lure, the Tangistani, the Bakhtiaris the Kamseh and the Khashgais had a long score to settle. Reza had stopped their raids and ambushes, imprisoned or killed their chiefs, forced them to live in villages, made them wear hats. Many a tribesman hoped that with a new Shah the good old days of unguarded roads and no punitive expeditions might return...
...wedding in 1939, which lasted five weeks, began in Cairo and ended in Teheran. During it a knock-down fight between his father and his bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...