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Moslem custom decreed that the bride should be absent. Because of another custom, the couple had never met until two weeks before the wedding. (Rumors that they had met and fallen in love in Switzerland were last week denied.) The Crown Prince's strong-willed father, Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, had arranged the match so as to bring together not only Egypt and Iran but also two great Moslem sects, the Sunni and Shiah, which for years have been as unmixable as oil and water...
...Tyrant, Satrap, Pharaoh, Khan, Caesar, Emperor, Tsar and Kaiser have left their sulphurous trail across the pages of history. Today in Europe they have new names...
Egypt last week was busily preparing for the visit next month of the 18-year-old Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpur Mohammed Reza, son of strong-willed Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, whose marriage to hazel-eyed, black-haired, 17-year-old Princess Fawziya, eldest sister of boy-King Farouk will take place this spring. At last reports the wedding date had not been...
...painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers are all in the Persian style of clear, brilliant, primarily decorative design...
...years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, and gazed upon a civilization which surpassed that of his native Venice. Year ago 700,000 coolies with new China fervor and old China tools set to work on the half-buried old Silk Road and today a fleet of 1,000 Russian trucks shuttle over it carrying supplies and munitions...