Show th the sl shall h the smallest t detail is submit submitted tid to the shah ehab and is ia not decided except upon his authority his ministers disavow all initiative and tremble at any executive responsibility imperious diligent and fairly just the shah chah is ia in his hia own person the sole bole arbiter of persian Per sias fortunes tun es all policy emanates from him bim he supervises every department with a curiosity that requires to be consta constantly iAly appe appeased asod and his attention both to foreign and domestic politics is ia constant and unremitting there is a consensus of opinion that he be is the most competent man in the country and the best beat ruler that it c can produce nor will any ono one deny him the pos poa of patriotism t am and of a g genuina interest in the welfare of the nation nati ozi it it is ia no mean criterion of the strength a and nd also of the general popularity laxity of the shah that he is the first persian monarch on who has ventured t to leave his dominions and travel in foreign and infidel lands not as a conqueror conquer br at the head bead of an army but as a friendly visitor if not persia and the as a volunteer tourist persian question |