DEMAND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REGIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6

DEMAND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REGIME

BRITISH AND RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF TEHERAN (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 16. The tactics pursued by the Germans in Teheran since the Persian Government agreed to hand over German nationals and to close the Legations of Germany and other Axis countries under German control, have shown an intention to delay and hamper in every possible way the implementation of the British and Soviet demands. It has for some days been clear that, in the absence of a display of firmness, these tactics would be continued/ and a decision to end this state of affairs by the despatch to the Persian capital of adequate military forces will occasion no surprise. News reached London this afternoon that Russian troops • from the north and British troops from the south are now almost at the gates of Teheran and a speedy clearing up of the unsatisfactory situation can now be expected. The nomination of the Crown Prince as Shah of Iran is regarded here as a natural one for the retiring Shah to make, but just as by his abdication the late Shah bowed to the popular will of his people, it is the people of Persia who must approve this succession.