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couple of men secretaries - he certainly wouldn't take a woman there - to write notes for him and a typewriter. It was a hazardous operation to go down there among those tribes who were very rich, but who would not pay taxes. They just would not pay taxes to the Shah. They were rulers in their own right to their own tribe. They had no sense of nationality and weren't going to pay taxes.

He went down and spent weeks with them. He became acquainted with them, learned bits of the language, and spoke through competent interpreters. Anyway, he persuaded them eventually to pay some taxes. That was considered the best and most brilliant piece of work that held ever done. The chiefs of these tribes began to be recognized. Among other things he had the idea that they should be invited by the Shah to come to the capital, now called Teheran.

He knew that the problem was transportation in large measure and he developed very fine transportation. He developed this willingness of the tribes to pay taxes. He persuaded the Shah to invite the chiefs of the tribes to Teheran and to treat them as royal dukes, at least, and with the dignity to which they thought they were entitled. All this was really public relations, as we would call it now. It served to reconcile the tribal chieftains to the paying of taxes.