Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the 80-hour war ended three weeks ago, old Reza Shah Pahlavi, many of whose political theories seem to be concentrated in his good right toe, had locked himself in his palace at Teheran and put to shame the classic sulk of Achilles. It was reliably reported that a Cabinet Minister who ventured to pay a call on the Shah was flogged with the flat of the royal saber, then punted off the premises by the royal boot...
...Pillaging the Iranian countryside were mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...
Victors in the fortnight-old, 80-hour Iranian War, the British and the Russians had at week's end not yet signed an armistice with Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran's King of Kings. Mootest point in the haggle was the expulsion or surrender for internment of Iran's large German colony. It was expected that the Shah would shortly come to terms...
...eleven weeks ago Adolf Hitler turned on Joseph Stalin. Last week the two ends the Shah thought would never meet closed...
...Shah called in U.S. Economist ArthurChester Millspaugh to unsnarl the country's appalling financial tangle. For a time Iranian petitions began: "Oh, Allah! Oh, Shah! Oh, Dr. Millspaugh...