THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1969.
Continuing the China Mail's Scoop on the Shah's great love: Doctors were agreed that there was a chance but the Queen said "No'
SORAYA had
SECRET FEAR
APART from the Shah, Soraya, and a handful of the world's foremost gynaecologists, whom she consulted during hor sevon-year childless marriage, I am perhaps the only person outside Porsian Polaco circles who knows that, but for Soraya's fears, she might have produced an heir and still be Quoon of
Persia.
The frightened young Queen has travelled thousands of miles visiting specialists in Moscow, New York, London, and Switzerland.
But it was not until several days after the announcement of their divorce last March, that the tragic reasons behind it became known to me. I refused to disclose them for as long as I believed that a reconcilia- tion was a possibility.
Today I can tell you that two Professor Rodolphe Rochat at 2,500-year-old tradition of of the world's greatest experts Lausame,
the
Persian monarchy, at once a fixat symbol of national unity and of Held, ww had nationaliom,
Kave
her consent.
on fertility one of them is But it was of Zurich Professor Ernst Held, of Zurich Professor --have Bgreed and fully already examined Soraya the endorsed each other's opinions year before, told her and the that "minor operation" could Shah: "My analyria in Com- have crabled Soraya to become nimed by my colleague in New a mother.
York. A ruinor surgical opera- tion is called for now.**
Soraya But the same night at their Zurich lakeside hotel Somya told the Shal: "1 AM 100 tightened," And she piraded with him all night to delay the operation for aupther time.
That time never came. Each day na Soraya_heaftaled the Peacock throne of Persin, held by the Pahlevi dynusty for
The Shah knew about it too, and in many endless wocks of pleadings and
he orguments
implorod Soraya, "ENTER A CLINIC AND I WILL REMAIN AT YOUR BEDSIDE DAY AND NIGHT,"
NO DANGER
Doclora told them that the
operation would take only two
or three days to perform, and they assured Soraya and the nearly 40 years, wRS Sinh: "It is not in the leant dangerous and will very likely ing danger so long as Soraya solve your problems."
Soraya was no longer the did not have a son.
rather awloward, tumboyish
girl with solid shouldera and heavy thighs us in the days when we were neighbours ut Zurich before she met the Shah.
VISITS
There are two other factors help the 39-year-old
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SHAH
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reason why I must mediately to Zurich, and the world waited for An an- gouncement that Soraya entered a clinic.
remarry."
The Shah is too much of a realist slot to recognise that, as a noigning monarch, he must assure the continuance of his young dynasty through an heir, And under the present con- subution this can only be a direct male descendant of the
Shah.
It was in an effort to forestall
a political storm that in 1957 tha
"NO MORE"”
had
Instead, she went to cine- mas twice a day, but never near a doctor. By the end of the week the Shoh Soraya to Geneva.
took
There I talked with Soraya.
Thoso wore har words:
to
Shah announced to his Parita- "No more doctors for me. which
ment that he would accompany The Queen on a ten-day medical have scen enough doctor Shah:
examination by four of Switzer- Persia has a long common land's leading specialty at the frontier with Russia and its end of their State visit to Spalt, in the past three years people have experienced
What
I have last me a lifetime. both Russian occupation-and.
Kreater proof Because they are non-Arab of the Shah's love for Soraya
their seen tho bost in the world, by race most of the Persian and of the depth of
dilemma? When they arrived peoplo view Nasser's Arab in Switzerland they went im- That is enough for me." empire with great suspicion.
The Shah's only hope of continued Mater support 10 for him to push through ruthlessly his announced pro- ramme of reforms.
He proud of what he has Persia OTO nchieved in grow-
than 2,000,000 studenta 03 than half that against lea nimber five years ago but recognises how much more there is to be done.
MMore than onco in my audience with him the Shah mentioned "my lonelines" and sald how urgently he needed n queen at his side, in the per- formance of duties of State.
ONE HOPE
For there is only one man who can save Persia from the crop of revolutions which year
As he himself said: "One by year sweep the Middle East
cannot choose wHe as ont and that man is the Shab,
While litary and politi. chooses a thirt or even a new
car." cal coups upset neighbouring
Happiness and wealth had transformed her into the beauty the wholo world kows today.. Yet she her- self told me: "I have seen every known specialist and they cannot apree. None has told me that 1 Persia's ruling familles Are cannot have children. That is determined to behave as though the agony of my ordeal, and I nothing had happened,
ot
States the more reellenary A REALIST
am going through a living hell" So the Shah
turned from New York. They
had
President sech
He spoke to me about the clinica and agencies which becn established in
is fighting have
At that time the Shah and what in offect ja a leno various parla of Persia, and his Queen had recently re- battle against a corrupt added "the people have A the indol- right to expect their Queen Elsen- officialdom and
to visit them," and he added:
"We receive many visita by heads of State and I my- self have gained creat perience from O
hower's doctor in the US, once of absentee landlords.
from their return
And in many waye the New Yoric they consulted mainstay of his support is the
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guidance.
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