PERSIA: Chaste Silence

In remote Teheran, capital of Reza Shah Pahlavi, swashbuckling "King of Kings," a hard-boiled Chicago Tribune correspondent sat down last week to cable news that a long disregarded Persian police order forbidding men and women to converse together on the street is at last being literally and rigidly enforced. Cabled he:

"Even the most obliging of women now do their utmost to assume the aspect of chastity in public to escape punishment."

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