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...years ago, the Corporation did it again, getting for its Commencement speaker (always one of the honorary degree winner) His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran. President Pusey cited the Shah as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Iranian students in the United states, however, see the Shah in a different light. Like many of the Latin American rulers Harvard has so honored, the Shah is considerably less popular with his own people than with American observers. The Iranian Students Association in the United States announced that it rejected the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and the students picketed outside. Harvard Yard during the Shah's address...
...Japanese ambassador to Iran, Poland and now Argentina, and he had served the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo for 37 impeccable years, but last week 59-year-old Ichiro Kawasaki found himself sacked for that most undiplomatic sin of all-speaking out. Was he guilty of gossiping about the Shah, uncovering the truth behind Polish jokes, or detailing the gaucheness of the gauchos? Not a bit of it. All Kawasaki did was to write a book, Japan Unmasked, about his fellow Japanese...
Seniors may deposit suggestions for Class Day guest speaker in House dining halls and the CRIMSON office until Friday. The Shah of Iran spoke last year...
When it seemed that political advantage could be gained, Dulles sometimes risked operations that he supervised with cheerful confidence. In 1953, the CIA helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz's overthrow. CIA agents dug a tunnel from West to East Berlin that succeeded in intercepting Communist communications until it was discovered...