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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half of Iran's exports (excluding oil revenues, used exclusively for the army), bringing the King of Kings needed foreign money...
...Bucharest last week there were supposed to be three "real reasons" for the peasant Prime Minister's evasive resignation: 1) a split in his own Peasant Party between peasant factions of the "Old Kingdom" and those of such great new provinces added to Rumania after the War as Tran sylvania (Maniu birthplace); 2) successful intrigue by the Rumanian Minister at London, Nicolae Titulescu, through wily henchmen in Bucharest; 3) the anger of King Carol at Dr. Maniu's repeated insistence that His Majesty must not be crowned until Queen Helen becomes reconciled and consents to be crowned with...