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Next day a special session of Iran's pliant Parliament cheered at the news that Boss Reza had abdicated "for reasons of health." Parliament promptly sat his eldest son, 21-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, on the throne...
...glossy, soft-chinned Comte de Paris, 34, exiled Bourbon pretender to the French throne, would dearly love to have Vichy give it to him even if no real power went with it. Last week he addressed an epistle to all Frenchmen from Rabat, Morocco. Said...
Because World War I cost Charlotte's elder sister, Marie Adelaide, her throne (for alleged disloyalty), because the Grand Duchy's independence was almost bartered away in the peace settlement, George Waller decided that everything that happened to the Grand Duchy during World War II should be witnessed by disinterested observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin...
Before he ascended the famed Peacock Throne, the Shah's name was Reza Khan. The Pahlavi he added means "Parthian" in Persian. The phrase "a Parthian shot" refers to the classic Parthian archers' tactic of shooting arrows over their shoulders as they fled. Last week, before he started shoving out Germans, the Shah first told the Allies that to do so would violate Iranian neutrality. The British will be contented to have him continue firing over his shoulder as long as he keeps the Germans moving...
...Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 76, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Cosmo Gordon Lang has often denounced the "anti-God atheism of Moscow" and he helped maneuver his King into abdicating rather than permit a divorced woman to sit on the throne of England. But Cosmo Cantuar is a shrewd politician. When compromise is expedient he does not flinch from it and he can always find good reasons for his action. His reasons last week...