MEN AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY

... visit to Persia to attend the millenary in honour of Firdaussi. the great Persian poet who died 1000 years ago. Ihe Persian Government asked one representative from every country to attend the celebrations, and Mr Drinkwater has gone on behalf of English ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
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POPE RETURNS TO VATICAN

... branch of the British Film Institute has been formed here. Mr. Drinkwater has gone to Persia on the invitation of the Persian Government. an invitation extended to repreeentatives of every country. Firdeusi was the Persian poet who wrote a wonderful history ...

Published: Monday 24 September 1934
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PERSIA

... PERSIA. Mr. John Drinkwater, the poet and dramatist, left tor Persia yesterday the invitation Hie Persian Government attend the millenary celebrations in honour their poet Hrdanssi. All countries have been invited to send a representative, and Mr. Drinkwater ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1934
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAILY PERSONAL

... i'our motor-cars. il r r . , J °hn Drinkwater, the poet and itiv ' l 6t > left tor Persia yesterday at the ' lon the Persian Government to tlj le Millenary celebrations in honour Poet Firdaussi. Vijjj a nley Armstrong, manager of the Glider Bank, Kingswood ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1934
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

MR JOHN DRINKWATER FOR PERSIA

... Persia to attend the millenary celebrations in honour Firdaussi, the Persian poet, who died a thousand years ago. The Persian Government asked one representative from every country to attend, and Mr Drinkwater was invited on behalf of English letters. The ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1934
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ENGLISH PRIESTS AT TEHERAN

... TEHERAN. The report received London that two English Roman Catholic priests have been placed under supervision by the Persian Government in Teheran on suspicion of espionage, is at present, unexplained in official quarters in London. The priests concerned ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1934
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER TO-DAY’S WEATHER FORECAST Bright Intervals Rather Low To Average ..

... JOHN DRINKWATER S VISIT TO PERSIA Mr John Drinkwater the poet and dramatist going Persia to-day at the invitation the Persian Government attend millenary celebrations in the poet Firdaussi All countries have been invited to send a representative and Mr ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1934
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
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Test for Technical Schools

... trophies mementoes their trip.: Mr. John Drink water, the poet and dramatist, is leaving for to-day, at the invitation of Persian Government, to attend the celebrations honour ol the poet Firdausl. All countries have been invited send representative. The c ...

True, the British in Persia did their best to make their intervention look a little more respectable by ..

... Persians and enrolling them in a force—the South Persian Rifles—officered and equipped by Britain. Silence in Court The Persian Government, none the less, insisted on regarding the Rifles as a foreign force, and immediately on the declaration of peace requested ...

Published: Sunday 16 September 1934
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... force and a costl y paign—which would at that time been anything but popular in Br —it was impossible to remove the Persian Government. ...

Published: Sunday 16 September 1934
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ONDON NOTES AND COMMENT

... what the delegates from Siberia, Turkestan or Inner Mongolia thought about all. Firdausi's Millenary On October 3 the Persian Government will start celebrating the millenary Persia's greatest poet, Flrdausl—a name which to Englishmen means one of the Aga ...

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... Persian Consulate G:neral hcre about any negotiations that may have taken place between the Acro Club of London and the Persian Government in regard to the facilities which the Persian Govtrnment may be prepared to give to competitors In the Lif.ndon-Melbourne ...