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Scapegoat of the Benes agreement, according to news from Teheran, is Abdol Hussein Khan Teymourtache whom the Shah has dismissed from office as his Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State. Twenty-two years ago, long before Reza Shah Pahlevi usurped the throne, young Abdol Teymourtache, a clerk in the Persian Finance Ministry, was picked for advancement by the then U. S. Fiscal Adviser to Persia, W. Morgan Schuster. Young Abdol rose steadily to No. 1 court rank...
According to English correspondents in Teheran last week, the King of Kings has now come to realize how false and superficial was the reasoning of Teymourtache. Agents of Anglo-Persian may or may not have helped to bring His Majesty around to acceptance of Dr. Benes' formula by the usual implement of Persian persuasion, bagfuls of bright gold...
...Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took...
...House of Commons crusty Tories raised a cheer when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Captain Anthony Eden boomed that "His Majesty's Government would not hesitate, in case of necessity, to take all legitimate measures to protect its vital interests." In Teheran the arrival of Britain's words-via British Wireless News Agency-caused such official consternation that Persian newspapers were forbidden to print them and special couriers were rushed off to Reza Shah Pahlevi who was still in Mazanderan applauding superb Turkoman horseflesh and horsemanship...
Riding back next day over the Elburz Mountains, the "King of Kings" forged ahead of his suite, who found a snowstorm in Firuzkuh Pass too much for them. Pushing on to Teheran with a small picked escort Reza Shah Pahlevi stamped into his Palace, ordered every Persian newspaper to print what had been suppressed. To Britons it seemed impossible that the horsy Persian would act thus unless he had potent backing. Whose? The London Press bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form...