IRAN: Great Khan in Manacles

At the court of the King of Kings, swart, dynamic Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, arrived last week news which seemed to good Iranians almost unbelievable. Some natives of America, described as Marylanders, were said to have perpetrated a most shocking outrage in an outlandish place called Elkton, discoverable only with difficulty on Persian maps. In this apparently wild and uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"—the natural right of a...

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