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...jaunty, clean-limbed incumbent of the $30,000,000 Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan. Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated...
...great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will be no peace in China...
First thunders against the Ronoto came, last week, in an announcement from the Ministry of Justice. This states that the Imperial Police had arrested in a secret raid 1,013 Opposition sympathizers of whom 26 were being held as Communists, on charges of attempting to subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week...
...years between now and his accession to the throne, he studiously widens the range of his interests and information, and deliberately scans his empire for creative brains-brains in out-of-the-way places, brains on the make-he could bring together a sort of spiritual squadron that could produce an incredible advance in the intellectual, literary, artistic, scientific, and inventive life of his people...
...Victoria have just been published and simultaneously the life correspondence of Miss Gertrude Bell. The present generation fancies Miss Bell as a superwoman of the desert who died (TIME, July 26, 1926), some time after she and certain British expeditionary forces had set King Faisal of Irak on his throne. Interesting is the fact that the sheltered Queen wrote letters no less lusty than those of the feminine "king maker...