Word: sultanism
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...king, Sultan Ahmad Shah, who left Persia for a joy trip to France two years ago, sent a telegram some days ago to the Persian Minister informing him the date of his departure for Persia. This wire, being printed in local papers, roused the anger of all Persians, especially inhabitants of Azerbaijan. Consequently from all parts of Persia telegrams were sent to Majlis (parliament) asking that our delegates to gather and take a final decision whether the Shah should return or not. Delegates paid no attention to their demands and eventually the situation began to grow worse and worse every...
Little anxiety for the personal safety and comfort of former Sultan Mohammed VI of Turkey was felt in 1922, when eluding the Kemalists he fled from Constaninople aboard a British warship, and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey turned his realm into the republic of which Mustapha Kemal Pasha is now president...
Last week, however, despatches from San Remo, famed Riviera resort, described Mohammed VI, once both Sultan and Caliph, as no longer able to command the state and retinue which he has maintained until very recently. Gifts and contributions from wealthy Turkish sympathizers still enable him to keep up a modest villa, but it is alleged that a few weeks ago he was nearly evicted for nonpayment of rent, and it is said that he has been obliged to dispense with even the German governess who formerly attended his youngest...
...cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
Last week the French captured Suedia, capital of the Jebel Druse, and relieved a French garrison, which had held in a state of seige by the natives there for 66 days. Sultan Atrasch followed by thousands of his tribesmen fled to the hills. In Paris there were rejoicings at "the beginning of the end of French troubles in Syria...