PERSIA: King of Kings

Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city located some 60 miles inland from the southern tip of the Caspian Sea.

There the representatives of the Christian world were accorded a standing place at the left hand of the famed Peacock Throne* of Persia. On the right stood high Persian dignitaries—most of them Moslems, some Christians. All had assembled for the coronation of a man who five years ago was a...

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