Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Chief of the Imperial General Staff General Sir John Dill. One day he went out into Dorsetshire to see if he could flush a few partridge. He bagged two brace. When someone asked what he would do with them, he answered: "Eat them myself, of course, in Teheran on Tuesday." This week, sure enough, Sir Archibald was in Iran, nearly 3,000 miles by air from the Dorset downs. He had stopped on the way for urgent discussion with General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, commanding in the Middle East. In Teheran he talked with the Russian commander...
Mohammed Shah. As Iran's young Shah came to power 20,000 Russian troops were camped outside Teheran, redding up their tanks for a triumphal entry into the city. Fraternizing with them in sign language were the men of a British brigade, also ready to march...
Even the fat comfortable merchants of Teheran felt some of the same muted excitement. They knew the old Shah as a cantankerous man with an unpredictable temper, given to seizing land, imposing high taxes, throwing honest but dissenting businessmen into the big prison on the Ghulek Road north of Teheran. The prison was a poor place to live, all too good a place to die. Under Mohammed, the merchants of Teheran hoped, things might be different...
...young Shah who will have to cope with these stirrings was educated in Switzerland and graduated by the Teheran military academy. Like most Oriental princelings he has the reputation of liking females and a passion for driving his license-less sports Bugatti as fast as it will...
...marriage to Princess Fawziya, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, was celebrated by a fabulous 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...