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repeatedly make the saored person of the monarch the target of
their poisoned shafts and hold forth about the noble character
and personal genius of one whom we consider glorious because of
his great deeds,who is the object of the world’s admiration and
respect ?
What can it mean but that these selfish and self-
satisfied elements which wirh to make the world a sacrifice to
their greed are hostile to the growth,development,progress and
evolution of Iran and therefore attack that sensitive heart
( ) on which are centred the nation’s thoughts,its
activities,its very life ?
For one point,which to us is self-evident,is hidden
from no one who has the least knowledge of the position and
situation of Iran,namely that a life-giving movement has
arisen in every walk of the nation’s life,has rescued the
country from the position,which the English wished it to
occupy,of a buffer-state between India and other European
countries,and has transformed it into a nation which,dependent
from every point of view on its own will and inspiration al&ne,
capable from every point of view of defending its own interests,
will no longer serve as a shield to the imperial ambitions of
any other power. Moreover the nation knows that this
resurrection,this transformation of the iraa of 1919 to the
Iran of 1937 is the fruit of the inspiration,the will-power and
the devotion of that GREAT who has restored the greatness of
Iran, the splendours of the nays of Darius the Great, and has
expended every minute and second of his gl^xx^ut* life and the
whole of his natural strength in pursuing this saored ambition,
this refulgent ideal. Therefore,to disoarage in any way this
Royal person, who serves as the inspiring force,as the dynamo
of the ship of state,is to disparage the entire population of
the country and to insult the whole Iranian nation.
We who fully understand the reasons for the
/dissatisfaction