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Once he makes up his mind Persia's sharp-nosed "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi. is a tiger for action. Last week he sprang on Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., stock control of which is held by the Government of Britain's King George V, no tiger. In Teheran, with Reza Shah Pahlevi presiding, the Persian Cabinet denounced and cancelled Anglo-Persian's concession to exploit 500,000 sq. mi. of Persian oil land which was to have run until...
Meanwhile on London 'Change common shares of Anglo-Persian slumped 12% in value (a paper loss to His Majesty's Government of over ?2,000,000). Reza Shah Pahlevi had struck so suddenly that Anglo-Persian Board Chairman Sir John Cadman was not in London to receive the blow but in San Francisco. To California newshawks, long-jawed Sir John said with perfect aplomb. "All this is not so serious as it might appear, inasmuch as Persia lacks power to cancel the concession...
Inasmuch as Persia is a sovereign state, Sir Henri Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch (which is associated with Anglo-Persian in distributing oil), rushed around to the Persian Legation in London. He was invited with effusive courtesy to dine. He dined...
...Persian Government but will endeavor to settle things amicably. In Cabinet circles Reza Shah Pahlevi's action was called second in importance only to the question whether Great Britain would make her Dec. 15 debt payment to the U. S. As every Englishman knows, the oil resources of Anglo-Persian-strategically located between India and Britain-are vital to the Admiralty, must be retained at any cost...
...elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards the Anglo-Saxon ideal that the function of drams is to provide a maximum of entertainment, and a minimum of conscious instruction or dogmatic humor...