Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON n NE of the worst evils of totalitarian war is that sooner or X./later it compels even the most civilised countries to behave in an uncivilised manner. We who......
In The Safe At The Netherlands Legation At Teheran Th Ee
lies, or used to lie, a faded photograph of some former Dutch Minister issuing from the arched gate of his residence for hi s morning ride. On each side of this gate a Persian......
There Followed A Period Of Fervent Nationalism,...
reforms. An American financial mission intro. duced some sort of order into Persia's incoherent fiscal system. Communications were improved, and the great truth railway......
I Can Picture Reza Shah At This Moment Strolling Sulle
up and down the gravelled pathways of his garden at 'Shinar his great frame clad loosely in light khaki, his forgers to with a frail necklace of amber beads, his eyes......
It Was Sad To See How Year By Year The
sweet and ancient flowers of Persian culture were replaced by plants bedded out from Odessa or Berlin. I recall, as symbolic of what happened , the courtyard of the theological......
It Is For Reasons Such As These That We Have
welcomed the modesty and moderation with which at Coventry Mr. Eden referred to the Persian situation. He might well have claimed a resounding diplomatic triumph, or draped the......
Through The Dust Raised By This Sudden Reversal Of The
gears of Iranian policy, looms the large lonely figure of Reza Khan Pahlevi. Persian history would seem to be as recurrent as it is ageless, and the same patterns form and......
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