Word: pahlevi
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...Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain...
...Resting in Persia, after a brief unpublicized bout of baby-bussing in Russia (see cut): Princess Ashraf, sister of Persia's Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi. Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor...
...consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims: return to veils for women and beards...
...Kingdom. In 1941, when Germany's attack made aid to Russia through Iran an essential of Allied victory, the Allies took a long, hard look at old Reza Shah Pahlevi. They suspected some of his hangers-on of intrigue with Germany and, in any case, Reza Shah was too strong a character to be left athwart the Lend-Lease supply line to the U.S.S.R. So he was deposed, last year in far away Johannesburg died, full of bitter memories. Mohamed Reza, the wavy-haired young playboy, ascended the jeweled Peacock Throne of Iran...
...back Britain against Russia, the Shah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, with the fatalism of his race, might well ponder the philosophy of inevitability. Without much help from the Shah, Iran's fate would probably be decided at Mos cow's Big Three meeting. Nor was it likely that sweet reason would play much part in the settlements...