PERSIA: Ahmad Out

At the zenith of his power the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia was notorious as a faineant who allowed others to direct even his policies. A sharp question would probably have revealed that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia.

When Nicholas toppled from the most absolute of...

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