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SECRET DIPLOMACY AND THE KING'S MESSENGERS: Now They are Entering Upon a Career of Even Greater Usefulness

... receiving end of the round of drinks. There were, of course, emer gencies. One King's Messenger was ordered to report to the Persian Government from Constantinople the fact that Napoleon had escaped from Elba. He covered the 2,000 almost roadless miles at an average ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

THE EMPIRE'S GREATEST FOREIGN ASSET: The Story of William Knox D'Arcy and the Persian Oil

... made a fortune out of the Mount Morgan Gold Mine in 1882, and sent an agent in 1901 to Teheran to negotiate with the Persian Government for an oil concession. Hence Anglo- Iranian Whaf a movip Vic biography would make if the script writer could discover ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

PERSIA REGAINS CONTROL IN AZERBAIJAN: ALBANIA FACES TROUBLE OVER THE CORFU MINING AND ON THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER

... at the point of the bayonet, it is probable that Qavam and his followers will win a resounding victory at the polls PERSIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS MARCH IN TRIUMPH THROUGH TABRIZ UNITS OF THE SHAH'S ARMY PASSING THE ARK, OR CITADEL, A CELEBRATED LANDMARK, ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 783 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs