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DEOPLE began to ask:

There "Why?" Tumours that 10-year-old Soraya Esfandayiart had quiet- ly gone home to her mother in Switzerland after being found mysteriously poisoned.

This is not true. A correspon- dent reports from Cairo that Soraya, suffering from a re- lapse after typhoid fever, is NOW convalescing in a house close to the Imperial Palace, Teheran.

Preparations for the wedding contime, he added.

From the start the story of.

like

AT their snöagement 2907

star

went,

that was

There was But in many ways, Soraya is much specula- Westernised. She has spent tion about the many years in Switzerland candidates. A with her German-born mother. film she studied. English at a Ken- Hollywood star, came and

sington school and stayed at a but

hostel next door. happened tiza she There she is remembered as placed the Shah a "charming girl, quiet and as No. 1 on her unassuming, who never put on Hist of the any airs," She used to talk to "'world's most the supervisor in the kitchen, fascinating iron her own clothes and muke

her own bed.

She frequently met Princess

who Shams,

called for her ly the Shah sill several times in a car. A few remembered days

men."

But seeming-

Soraya.

Last

after receiving a letter October he sent from her father Soraya packed for her. With and left.

his sister, Prin- For any girl the Shah would cess Shams, she seem a ferfect husband. He la Bow to Teheran, handsome with the clean-cut classic profile of his race. In they his trips around the world he were betroth has often piloted himself in his the own Flying Fortress.

Soon

ed in royal painco's

He wanted to fly himself bo Hall of Mirrors. London when the King invited Soraya wore & him to Buckingham Palace. B Paris gown of was only outside pressure which white lame, and finally persuaded him to come the Shab placed in a special York plane of the on her finger a Duke of Gloucester's Flights. ring set with

blue and white diamonds.

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Dr. RICH

RICH IN OIL

even

Lavish

By fabulous rangements, fit Eastern standards, he in

£28,000,000, Yor a king and herited

and has his bolde," were given away come £25,000,000

Soraya and the Shah has been Paris and took the memory made for the marriage. Be in six years.

modern fairy tale. back with him to his marble sides the white-satin wedding Soraya is the kind of girl you paince in Teberan, where he gown, embroidered with diam. His kingdom, with its 17,- would remember. She has the ruled rich and powerful, but monds, with its four-yard 000,000 subjects, cpvers over 1 train, Dior designed an evening half a million square miles. It vitally oll and speckled

rich in with 800,000 is year earlier his marriage gown

situated so that his power and Princess Fawzio had sequins.

influence permeate beyond his dissolved, and the Shah looking for a new bride.

poise. of a thoroughbred. Fie lonely. face with its deep, dark eyes

is an

clusive blend of pride and tenderness.

+

A

with been And the Shah certainly re- was membered her. He first met In Teheran there was heart sent, dreams vase her at the Persian Embassy in flutterting and many

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Apart from Mr Stalin's pre- frontiers,

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But for all his Western ways from President Truman,

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allver came by air from London, the enmeshed in Eastern life. gift

of the Anglo-Iranian Ol Against this back-cloth the Company.

story of Soraya and the Shah For Soraya and the Shah seemed certain to have a happy

Untit just. On ending.

before the future scerned bright.

surface they seemed well Christmas-when It was an- suited. Although a commoner, nounced that Soraya was li

bride-to-be comes from with typhoid fever. of Persia's *300 ruling

WRI familles.

Soraya yet marry her Politically, it was right, be- Shah? Just before the wedding NOME 8,000 people are three feet ship in

is date her mother said: "Soraya reported to have died Sumatra was carried two miles cause her father canceled in a born cumpress." Now only inland and two now islands were badly by the old Shah, which time will tell whether she was when MOUNT LAMING-

controls the oil lands in South- right. East of Krakatoa is PAPAN-West Persia. DAYAN, which collapsed in a terrible

explosion leaving a gap

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In 1010 KELUIT followed suit after lying dormant for 18 years. A crater lake had been form- at the summit. during the quiet interval. Its waters cushed down the valley with a death roll of 5,500,

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