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The Amazing Folly of Mr. De Valera.
HERE THERE
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EVERYWHERE
Evening Dress Monotony.
One is heartily in favour of Im- proving on the black-and-white monotony of evening functions, and
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933.
THE SHAH WITH TWO
PERSONALITIES
RUTHLESS, AUTOCRATIC,
SPARTAN
the distinguished scientists who CHILD LIKE LOVER OF DISPLAY
went ono better than the Dress Re-l form League at a recent Chemical Dinner deserve our congratulations. But the courage to wear bright
After nightfall, a solitary clonked proposed to march at their head colours will never permeate the figure sometimes slips out of the, from Kasvin to Teheran, where ho! majority of men of our race. Co-
twin-towered loured waistcoats, and evon various Teheran and disappears in
Imperial Palace of would overthrow the Cabinet.
the His coup d'état succeeded, he ly coloured lapels (as worn last capital's ill-lit streets..
made the editor-patriot, Seyyid night by the greatly daring Pro- fessor Armstrong), will remain the Shah has acquired a reputation for took the title Sardar Sipah for him It is by such methods that Riza | Zlo-ed-Din, Prime Minister, and Idiosyncrasy of the sartorially ad- omniscience.. He likes to Rec self. vanturous, or the sartorially indif-
things for himself. He has not When he joined the Cabinet forent.
forgotten much that he saw and Minister for War he immediately The only practical solution of the learned during the years that took set about reorganising the army. great problem of uniformity is to him from the ranks of the army to He introduced compulsory military put the walters info colour.
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To eradicate weeds
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the Peacock Throne. The stranger service in place of the Bonitche sys- who has heard stories of the Shah's tom, under which each village pro- ruthless way with corruption will vided one man in ten. He zoned find nothing to suggest the Man of the country into six military dis» "Did you notice the situation in Iron in the Shah's features or hear-tricts, mechanised the army, import- Manchuria?"
ed technicians, restored discipline. по longer his Although it is applying for?"
He was then described as ruth official residence, Riza likes to spend less, and a deadly enemy to those “My husband says he married for as much time as he can in the fairy who stood in his path. But he beauty and brains." "Oh, I didn't palace presented to him by an ad- was efficient. Ho achieved results. When he became Premier in 1923 know he'd been married twice, mirer. It is here he receives in darling."
audience those who seek it.
the country was still at the mercy The palace is redecorated in the of the hill bandits. Riza decided Garrulous Old Woman"I really old Persian style, but the Shah pre- to follow the methods of Marshal do not see what the Ten Command-fers to transact business from the Lyauty in Morocco.. He set up ments are for; they don't tell you magnificent Indian tent whose open-police posts along all routes menaced what to do, and only put ideas into ing frames gardens of terraced by the Lurs and Bakhtiari. Travel-
flower-beds and little streams that lers slowly becau your head!"
that purl over blue or green tiled Riza had made Persian highways "3 can never
safe for caravahs. marry you," said courses. the film star, “but—” “But what?”
He sits at a small table, hatless, Dreaming of a Persian renaisa- working of the poison has not morrow. I'll introduce you to my form untidy.
"If you'll come to the studio to-his grizzled hair unkempt, his unlance, he next set about reviving the He seldom raises his ancient carpet Industry. He' set stopped there. It has influenced
dark eyes, double."
and contributes ouly up schools of medicine, aviation, the Free State's attitude to the Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1933. whole Empire, so that Mr. dé
monosyllables to the talk.
and wireless. He had a short way Mistress (engaging maid)-"And When he speaks his voice is soft with corrupt officials. To put tho Valera has declared he would not whom did you work for last?" Pros- and sweet, in strange contrast to public services on a sound basis, he Iliast a tribunal choren from the pective Maid "You remember that the rugged features of the weather imported a Belgian to reorganise dominions; and now the expon- Miss Brown, who died mysterious?" tanned face. He uses no gestures. the postal services, an American to ents of "ourselves alone" plainly "Yes." "Well, I did for her."
It is the picture of a man on his handle finances, a French jurist to envisage their total separation
defence rather than that of 4. ruth- |codify the Persian laws, from the rest of the world. That
less autocrat. Or perhaps the child In 1923 the Shinh left Persia for The Irish Free State general craze for self-sufficiency which
is suggested by the amber beads the playgrounds of Europe. election takes place to-day and has done so much to injure and
with which he plays as his eyes Shah Sultan Ahmed, fat, cffete it is the devout hope of all who retard post-war restoration, has
rest upon the needle of the com-and-flabby, was, like Stevenson's wish Ireland well that President laid firm hold of Southern Ire-
pass that lies on the tables before Prince Florizel, despised for his Eamon De Valers will be ejected land or at any rate, of its
German has him and seems to hold him fas-inattention to public affairs. It from office. Unfortunately the rulers. The ideal aimed at is to invented a method for spraying cinated.
was. Riza's opportunity." fiery Republican leader has de- stand entirely apart; and not only fields with a solution of one part
Resigned His Own Dindem.
The Mefliss demanded the Shah's luded & great section of in economics. The very attempt cellulose to ten parts water, the
Perhaps it was this apparently return. He declined, preferring the the more ignorant classes to revive an obsolete language treatment also retaining the nutri-childish quality that led the newly- tnbles of Monte Carlo. In October, and has attracted support has made other peoples feel, and ment for plants in the soil.
elected Shah to spend so much time 1926, the tall, dark soldier with the through his
violence most of all those from Ulster.
and energy upon the designing of deep act eyes and the soft voice was and spectacular-even if foolish that here is one more foreign It has been estimated by
his coronation robes.
Invited to ascend the throne of defiance of Great Britain. It country. And so little is the statisticien that drivers of motor
No detail of that gorgeous sere-Persia. is not inconceivable that he will force of universal kinship admit-vehicles in the United States waste monial was left to others: Riza Reviving Nationalism. be returned, although his defcat ted that, at a religious gathering, from 27 to 32 years each day wait-Shah ordered everything himself. He was voted an annual income is inevitable if Mr. Cosgrave and the very name of which consting for traffic lights to change. It is said that he even designed the of $120,000, with 456,000 a year for his followers have been able to tuted a world-wide claim, the fing convince the voters of the disas of that nation which sent to Great Britain's first radio equip ter that will most certainly at Dublin the greatest number of ped train, running between London tend a continuance of the present all the visitors was torn down and and Leeds since 1930, has ben so Government's policy. An idea of insulted. To the state of mind auccessful that the railway is that policy may be gained from which can thus display itself in equipping two of its Scottish ex the statement by Mr. Sean the sphere of a supposedly all presses. Lemass, Minister of Commerce embracing brotherhood, economic and one of De Valera's chief isolation seems naturally a tribe. man has developed an airplane magnificent goes hand in hand; hind him lieutenants, who declared that Blind to current events, the Min that is suspended inside circumstances in the near future ister for Finance proclaimed his building or out of doors and does/Paradoxically, with contempt of might necessitate the dissociation leader's whole creed in a speech everything done by a free plane ex-headed through the rain, declines to temptuous. Dazzled, possibly, by of the Free State from the Bri-at Cavan. "The agricultural tish Commonwealth of Nations. industry," he said, "when re There is nothing surprising in organised will no longer be de that. Many have been saying pendent on external markets." Personal Pars. the same thing for some time, Observe that no intercourse is and viewing the prospect with a desired with any conceivable cus Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Taylor were growing indifference. The one tomer. "Who is my neighbour?" among the passengers who arrived new thing about Mr. Lemass Nobody. Nature itself is to be from Los Angeles yesterday aboard candour was the reason he gave defied in this insane crusade. the liner Chichibu Marn. for his forecast. He laid it down The Free State can grow very as an axiom to him self-evident little wheat, and none of that the only justification for good quality, yet ́ ́a State Shanghai Interport cricketer, ar- continuance of the present frail alded scheme has been derived yesterday aboard the Presi- link was "the substantial benefits vibed under which it is declar-dent Hoover from Shanghai yester- conferred on the Free State" ed that the country must be day.
When he was told that oil is Rather an interesting admission made self-supporting in whicat
with an obedient Mejlias, or Parlia-conveyed in bulk. that it goes over- there! But he went on to add within five years. (Is the com- Bishop T. F. Thurston was also a ment, for the same reasons that seas in all-tunkers, his amazement that if these benefits, as now, pliment to Russia deliberate or passenger from Shanghai per the Mustapha Kemal is autocrat of a grew. For this man, who, among are not experienced, "then the unintentional?) The Free State, liner President Hoover, which ar- new Turkoy and Mussolini muster other things, has created the Per necessity for the maintenance of produces only a very little low-rived yesterday, and berthed at the in Rome,
elan Fleet (six ancient, gun-boats), the association has been remov-grade coal, yet British coal is Kowloon Wharf.
Perhaps the Shahi inherita much had never heard of modern methods of his strong character from his of oil transport.
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jewel-encrusted disdem that re-the son of kis second marriage, placed the traditional crown of the Prince Mohammed Risa..
Since Shahs.
then the self-made. Shah has con-
When the mollah advanced to centrated upon the revival of a Per place this glittering symbol on his sian national spirit: If he lacked head Riza Shah snatched it from education, he had political flair. him and crowned himself." A sym-He showed this when, in all serious bolic gesture?
sess, he made a pilgrimage" and This love of the theatrical and thus consolidated the priesthood.be-
He dreams of a Persia freed from bare tradition, of which he is openly con
luxury. The Shah rides
change from wet uniform, and has the achievements of other dictators, been known to sleep fully dressed. he envisages a Perela powerful and
Yet for his coronation he demand-progressive,
et Fed a glass couch in which to show But he is handicapped by hie himself to his new subjects. And, small Inowledge of the modern later, when he decided to become world.
westernised and use a car, he im- A story of the Shah's visit to the ported from Americas fantastic oil wells of the Anglo-Persian coun Himousine with gold-plated metal-try illustrates the limitations of this work, diamond-encrusted fittings, remarkable man. and wolfskin rugs."
"Where," he is said to have ask But these are merely the foibles jed, "are the tins in which all this of a man of tremendous character. cil is to be taken away? Riza Shali is dictator of Porsia,
ed. Waiving the question as to kept out by the tariff, and as com-m who was responsible for, the loss plaint has been made that the Major and Mrs. Gordon Foster mother, the second wife of a retired of advantages, consider only the German and Polish substitute is and Capt. and Mrs. H. Whittaker non-commissioned officer turned blind selfishness so nakedly avow-dear and poor, Mr. de Valera hus were arrivals per the N.Y.K. liner farmer in the province of Mazan- ed. No desire exists to give as counselled the use of peat As a Chichibu Maru which arrived from deran. When he was three his well as to take, no thought writer in the "Contemporary Re- Los Angeles yesterday. of mutual gain seems even view" remarks, the views of
News In Brief.
father died, and his mother, who The next meeting of the Hong had become aware of a plot to kill Kong Branch of the English Arto-
occur;
0 recognition an engineer in Guinness' brewery Bishop and Mrs. N. 5. Binated her child took him upon her back elation will be held on Tuesday, shown
the fact or Jacobs biscuit factory if he and the Rev. and Mrs. John and walked 125 miles to Teheran February 7, at 5.30 p.m. at the that large numbers of disting had to raise steam with turf Grainger ward among the passen There she marrieds Cossack, and at Helena May Institute, when Mra guished Irishmen have won their would be unprintable. The gers, who arrived yesterday aboard fifteen, according to Persian custom, Barrett will give an address on way to the highest positions in same applies to the railways and the Dollar liner President Hoover Riza followed his father's calling "English and the Pregs.”** the service of the Empire, a ser the gas companies. And the from Americh via Japan and Shang- and became a soldier vice which is still as open to them Shantion electrical scheme is no bal.........
as ever it was. In this new gos- success as yet. But the tale,
pol, the word "service" itself has fully stated, would be Lendless, —
Fpparently no place. The one One would wonder how the tragic
Young Rizh rose steadily to com- An enjoyable social evening was missioned rank. In 1917 ho gal spent in the St. Andrew's Church vanised
the capital by sweeping Hall last night, when the Out down upon the headquarters of the Going Committee of St. Andrew's and only, motive is: "What do we farce could possibly endure an from the errors of others. How Cossack Brigade in Teheran and Club were hosts to
embers. get out of it? Nothing else is other day and not the world seen long it will be before the victims capturing B
while Mr. J. C. M. Grenham: "des considered for in moment. Yet, so many recent examples of eco- of this
of "ourgelvès By the end of the War he was a lighted ‹ with his camera ialah, after all, is it really inconsistent? nomic madness persisted" i "for alone", discover that themselves general with a reputation for swift lepicting pictures of Australia, Is it not a mere restating of "our the sake of plqué, and prejudice, alone are the authors of selves alone? This foolishness, Yet scarcely among them all is no one can so far as it relates to Great Bri-there one so glaring as the case armie
egan, of course, as a form of this political passion, ut the 80
For States, wh may st any hit chave: lemmed into spoedy.
Among the öve forcair whi
turn Alow ruin
action and great personal cour | Thursday: Irland, and the First Test
Stall Tean and hard na na
match. Refreshments were served, became imbued with an Inteuse na- and the evening closed with a tion In 1921 he got together arty, vote" of thanks to the Com-
3,000 mad,, and told them that he