English Translation

4.6 .= 3 e built roads and with modern means of transport seemed to be lightning fast to punish; in his ministries he sometimes appears early wm eight to control the punctuality also of the hoh:n officials. It is said that he needs only four hours of sleep, every day at five o'clock get up, know on amazingly many subjects. He is closed, rarely visible, and the distance between him and his subordinates is wide. His whole heart is attached to the progress of civilization, About the first radio station of Iran he gave himself the first broadcast, and he drew the last. Screw on the 1.45o kilometer long trans- versalbahn, which binds the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. Railways, bridges, roads are for him beyond the usefulness of self-confirmation and strength tests of his country. For the big Ben railway construction no foreign bond was allowed. Riza Shah gets from America and Europe what he needs, an American financial advisor, German engineers, Swedish skilled workers. He lets his people wear European hats and has taken away the veil from the women, but that's why he remains quite cool on the other side of the world. Following the mocking song of some Parisian caberettists, he withdrew Iran's participation in the world exhibition. He never looked at Bich Europa. He sends students and officers there, and his five children went to school for a time in Switzerland. Without any appearance of uncertainty, he deals with products, equipment and experiences that have not grown up in his country and of which he himself has not known the longer part of his life. Like a magic formula, he follows the principle of acting differently from the previous dynasty in every detail. This is provided that he mixes traditional tradition and reform, the withdrawal of the original name Iran, the revival of Central Persian literature with compulsory schooling and the Boy Scout movement also for girls, the right to divorce; the establishment of hospitals, education for sport, industrialization and general compulsory military service, with Islam he has made a common sense. The unanimity with which friends and enemies declare the Emperor of Iran a genius is unusual in the usual color of human judgments. He may, as some narrators claim, be the son of a simple peasant, cder may, like others, have been born in a half-deadened castle as son of an ancient impoverished noble family: since 1921, after inconspicuous empordication, to the head of the Persian Cossack division, forty-four years old, with his soldiers undersaw the march on Tehran and set off the government, his path is visible and without wavering the direction. He released his country politically from the pliers of Russia and England, which had already reached an agreement on the division of Persia before the World War. The trumps were always so in his hand that England was pushed out of the concessions in the Persian Gulf and the oil area step by step, He carefully weighed out the neutrality and dealt with his army attentively. Important tasks in the new Iran were entrusted to German experts. Their presence in the country is known for years. But the narrow-minded have recently decided to marvel at it. To deal with this sort of astonishment is the problem for Riza Shah, on whose solution depends the fate of his life's work. By the invasion of the English and Soviets it is in greatest danger. - 4 -