The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . PEESIA APOLOGIZES 165 advice to Persia to yield at once was actuated by a desire tostay the advance of Russian troops lest Parliament should crit-icize Eussias violation of the Convention of 1907. In the meantime a new Persian Cabinet had been formed andit was voted to apologize to Eussia. On November 24, therefore, the Persian Minister of ForeignAffairs, Wuthuqud-Dawla, drove in full uniform to the Eus-sian Legation. Sei
The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . PEESIA APOLOGIZES 165 advice to Persia to yield at once was actuated by a desire tostay the advance of Russian troops lest Parliament should crit-icize Eussias violation of the Convention of 1907. In the meantime a new Persian Cabinet had been formed andit was voted to apologize to Eussia. On November 24, therefore, the Persian Minister of ForeignAffairs, Wuthuqud-Dawla, drove in full uniform to the Eus-sian Legation. Seizing the Eussian Minister by the hand hesaid: Your Excellency, I am instructed by my own Govern-ment to apologize in its name for the affront put upon the Con-sular officers of Your Excellencys Government in the Shuaus-Saltana affair. Then followed the grim diplomatic jest whichonly a Russian Cabinet with its utter disregard for fairness ordecency would think of perpetrating. The Persian Ministers evidently believed that their self-abasement and the delivery of the estates would appease evenEussian anger and settle the whole affair. They reckoned,however, without know
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