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"Acting on the suggestion in the. press that we should devote one hour a day to understanding what the war mocans, some fool in our avenue suggested we talked it over with our wives.”
Exclusive interview with
THE SHAH OF PERSIA
He inherited £28,000,000 and has given away £25,000,000 in six years
LONG the arid Soviet-
*
Men still tremble at the The Shan received me in
50ft, quare but sparsely
Persian border tem- name of Reza Shah, who room
furnished. A desk with 端 pers are shortening. ruled for 16 years with an vase of flowers stood in one Red propaganda to Persia iren hand.
Ile
20
is increasing. In the diplo-
corner. English.
greeted
matic field, Russla has sent
One authentic story
A pilot
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7.30 9.30 P.M.
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD...IN ALL ITS STIRRING SPLENDOR!
HUMPHREY
BOGART SAHARA
GREAT STAR OF "CASABLANCA" IN
STUCK BESNEYS - A CHABOL HARI - LLİYƏ BRIDOES - M Pre far fakat
merciless onl
endless sands
sharp Notes to the Persian shows him as the man who
that Government claiming
got things done. When he
the
Americans are making opened the Lido and Casino
acriui
surveys under guise of oil-work.
The jamming of Radio Teheran by Russian stations Inside Per- has increased. sia, the Communist-control- ed Tudel Party has intensi- fied its agitation.
In the House of Commons asked. Is questions are
Persia to be another Korcu 7
£80,000 tax free
1
me in
19 ab. proachable and personable.
London Exprcos Servéol
"His Imperial Majesty Muhammad Iteza Shah Pahlevi, King of Kings by Divine gift, ruler of all the Persians,
"
Sitting On The Fence
By..
Nathaniel Gubbins
A diligent reader of $10 newspapers has written in to During $tio lost few reported months it lins been in the Prens that, apart from their normal duties of protect ing law abiding citizena, officers ous duty in the streets and at police stations have been asked to deal with seven Colurada beetles, three unexploded ha grennder, WD unexploded hanibe. and bring four babies Info the world."
lady.
VENING, Sarge.
You're late.
I've been helping
Drunk?
No. She was having a baby
in a telephone box.
Where've you put them? The matron's made them nice
and comfortable in Cell No.
Cell No. 17
That's right.
Good lord.
What's the matter? The unerploded
there. Under sucking.
Oh,
1.
Is it anything to do with drains?
No,
Not really.
Outdoor or Indoor work?" Outdoor,
Animal, vegetable or mineral? Well, you might say it's all of
This is most exciting. You his work is concerned with say her.th. The health of the com- munity?
Oh, definitely.
Why you
artful litle thing.
I do believe you've married a doctor and won't tell. He's the medical officer of health, isn't. het
No, I wouldn't say that, But it's to do, with germs? In a way, yea.
garbage and refuse?
The destruction of germs? in
Well,
Then I know what he is. He's one of those clever young seim- tts risking his health getting
bomb's in mples of things and analysing them in bla Jaboratory. How thrilling, darling. I congratulato. you.
What are you scratching your. Lerif fort
Another lady gave me a Colo- rado beetle,
Why didn't you put it in a match-box?
I did. It escaped. You should have put your
handcuffs on it.
Don't be funny, sarge, Where is it now? Give you three guesses, Stop that, You can't take Any...
|HOUT (TOUScre of here.
thing cire?
In Wonderland
"Although Ignorance of the law in England is not an excuse for breaking there DIA RO many new offences since 1030 that nobody can know from day to day when they have committed some paltry crime."-- Vitting magistrate back En Ceylon
The King and
Queen of Hearts were the judges, Allco
Oh, yes. I nearly forgot, Live was in the dock. hand grenade.
Where'd you get that?
Took it off a boy.
Don't put it in my desk, you fool.
It's all right, sarge. The pin's Istill in it.
Take it of my desk, I say. Just a minute, sarge.
I could catch the beetle it I undid my
braces.
Look out. Tite matron's com- ing. Hullo, matron.
Hullo, sarge.
Call an ambulance and get
the mother and child out of that cell, Quick.
She can't be moved tonight.
She's bad.
Slic
may be
at Ramsar, on the Caspian, THE King of Kings by taking a royal bathe, he A first-class pilot, he has a pri- Want to be friends with every stays. stubbed an imperial toe yote Flying Fortress and a country, and we sholl always)
twin-engined Beechcraft, which be friendly with those that against a stone.
he often takes up himself. friendly towards us."
He wore
Cabled from TEHERAN by JOHN GODLEY
Whereupon
"CONSIDER your verdiet,"
nald the King to the jury. verdlet when they don't know "How can they consider the-
what I've done?" asked Alice.
"What
live you
dione?" asked the King.
"Nothing" sold Allee, asked the King.
why are you hero?"
"I don't know," sald Allee, "Write that down," said the King to the jurors "It's im portant.
said the Queen to Alice.
"Your hair needs cutting,"
"
11?" asked Aller
"What's that got to do with.
"Silence in court," roared the
worse. If the usher.
Are you suggesting I don't are know my job?
No. Mc, 21 midwife with three aliver medals?
his
All right. All right.
R light grey sult, On the possibility of with Waistcoat. brown and remarriage (last year he white shoes, a blue shirt, and divorced his first wife Fawziah, dark red silk tle with verhea, aister of King Farouk, on the be black stripes. A gold signet same day that Farouk of responsible. ring shone on the second finger Egypt divorced his wife Farl- of his left hand.
dah): "I om not contemplating remarriage.
The
be
If she's moved tonight it may
fatal and you'll
Have it your own way,
31-year-old king is of medium height and well built, "Onc day I will remarry. He speaks slowly, but with But the first material necessary URSUTIENCE. I asked him why for a wedding is a bride, and 5166p
*There Are
War interlude
a lot, tanks a lot,"
*
he had not been crowned. have yet to find one. At pre- TANKS
shouted the South Korean more importan! Fent I have ne particular person soldier to the American relo- he ordered
things to be done," he cald mind.** back that by next morning every "One" day I shall be crowned, AGAINST Buch
His Im- pebble was to be removed maybe soon. ground rules perial Majesty Muhammad from the entire shore and ng till there is less tension and Reza Shah Pahlevi, King of for several yards into the "more normal atmosphere. Kings by Divine gift, ruler Sel.
of all the Persians-a hand- some young man in military
And it
But I am waiti
His sister
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself doing nothing," said the Queen, "A greol girl like you.” "When I said I was doing nothing," said Allce. "I didn't quite mean that."
"What did you mean?" askod the Queen,
"I mean I wan't doing any thing...
"You were either
doing
nothing or you weren't doing anything. Which is it?" asked the King.
ilon.
forcements,
Allco WEG getting quito- "You're welcome," the Ameri. frightened at this cress-examina- caus shouted back.
"I
lota mean
of tanks," shouted the soldier. "Coming the marriage of his sister, down the road." powers are rather
Princess Fatima, with the "That's different," mid the The King of Sweden's, and not American Journalist Vincent Americans, reaching for their was BO. Next more than the King of Eng Hillier, he said: "I could have bazookas.
1 preside at Cabinet forgotten about traditions but land's. Incelings, but 1 requiro the I could not ignore the religious
question. approval of Parliament.
uniform whose near-life-size meruing Reza Shah was the photograph is prominently only pebble on the beach. displayed in houses and public buildings all over
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QUEEN'S
AIR-CONDITIONED
Nobody's As Good As Bette When She's Bad
He has a tax-free sulary of £80,000, and in six years he has given away over and £25,000,000 in money property lo public works in Persia.
Nominally, my constitutional O
less than
"The cold war has been go "His acceptance of Islam af- On his death in 1944 the ing on a long time; it is an ler the marriage makes things present shah inherited £8,- noying, and is sometimes a hind: all right from the religious But point of view, but she has got 000,000 and property worth rance to industrial effort. £20,000,000.
people have come to take the to come back here to Teheran, cold war for granted, and I do and her husband must be pro- not think the present inter- perly received at the Court be- national situation is serious.
fore her royal prerogatives are restored."
In the hills
H
E set about giving away.
Most of
it has gone to
over
of
Security Council in all Persia is
country.
Com-
the
Dust oi
A worried dustman has asked a newspaper psychiatrat if ho should change his occupation before marrying the girl he loves because, as the neighbours gurer at his calling, he does not wart hly future wife to 50 Embarrassed.
*
*
**
When she hesitated to make reply the Queen sold:— "Don't get nervous or I'll have you executed on the spot," "Call the first witness," said the King.
"There are no witnesses,” said the usher,
"Then you'll do," said the King, "When did whe commit the offence?"
Queen.
"Yesterday," said the usher.. "No,
wasn't," said the "It was the day before." "If you don't know what the offence was, how do you know when I committed It?" asked Allce.
Hold your tongue!” shouted the Queen, turning purple with ruge.
won't," salt Alice. "Off with her head," yelled the Queen at the top of her
"Case adjourned for refresh- ments," and the King, taking a bag of jam toris from his pocket,
Persin is independent, and will defend herself against On the operations of the all aggressors. She is a mem; Anglo Iranian ber of United Nations, and
**I believe that
Let us hope they will marry pany: But it is less through
fully supports the decisions
existence of British Interests in and that bis wife will be able to
advantageous to my deal with diffleult question, In volce. gift from Allah, and more wation and health and social the
services. Today his money malters, including Korea,
the happy years to come. through the strength and
fortune is estimated alittle "Persia is a most important umbition of his much-feared
"New strategically and ceo. £100,000. But
postwar developments he still couly.
for British world tend to bring about father, the recently buried
has seven palaces.
interests and the maintenance relations between our Reza Shah, that he rules
of peace. Strategically she is countries." some 17,000,000 subjects He invited me to visit him at the link between the West and today, and a vast kingdom h summer residence in the the East; economnlently, she s On the possibility of a future
nt Shemran,
to Russia, following huge the fourth largest oil-producing visit
hla building,
recent clistening country in the world.
United visits to the States white in scorching sunshine,
and Britain: "If they were to invite me. it would be only natural to accept."
of over half a million square hills miles,
His father, a Persian Cos.
square
x
sack, was born plain Reza by soldiers
From the entrance, guarded
Help
no
in yellow uniforms Khan. In 1921 he marched with bright red facings, I walked
have received on Teheran and overthrew though gardens among gill and "WE
financial help in the way the Government. Four years slivered statuettes and brilliant
the wide fight
We are not of of American ald. flowers to AT 2.30, 5.15 later he turned out the royal stone steps leading to the begging-but it is a question-of
world security and peace. 7.209.30 family and became king.
palace itself.
P.M.
NANCY
June Special
We
Closer WHAT exactly does your
two husbond do, dear?
George? Oh, he works for the chunell,
How very interesting. Town Clerk, dear? Well, no.
Not exactly that. He's more on the health ske.
Sanitary Inspector?
FOOTNOTE: John Godley, heir of Lord Kilbracken, on his way to New Zealand, is Teporting on the lives of people in many lands,
-(London Express Service)
ts.
Not quite that.
Assistant sanitary inspector? Well, in way I suppose he But not properly speaking,
If you know what I meân.
Is he a kind of drain diviner, Tike a water diviner?
No, I wouldn't say that,
Korean limerick
AID
a glamorous lady of Tonguong? "I never do anything wrong-
wrong.
"Though I'd girl with a
Yank
"Who has cash in the bank.
"loudy, Bud? Alta boy. Come
along-long."
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