The Hanging of Sir
Roger Casement
By
Mohammad-Ali Jamālzāde
Kāve, 15 Aug 1916 |
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Hanging of |
دار زدن |
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Sir Roger Casement |
سیر رُجر کِزمِنْت |
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Third day of Shavvāl 1334 (3 August 1916)(The first
paragraph as well as all others are indented, a practice not
common in today's Persian.) |
روز سوّم شوّال ۱۳۳۴ |
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Reuters telegraph from London gave news that |
تلگراف روتر از لندن خبر داد که |
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nine o'clock |
ساعت نه |
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Farangi (European time) [in the] morning |
فرنگی صبح |
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Sir Roger Casement was executed. (The (1) indicates a
footnote with the spelling of the name in Latin characters.
See the link above to the original scanned article.) |
سیر رجر کِزمنت (۱) اعدام گردید. |
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This brief, mute news |
این خبر مختصر گنگ |
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became the cause of some intense clamor in all the countries |
باعث ولولهٔ شدیدی در تمام ممالک گردید |
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and most of the newspapers of Europe and America |
و اغلب جراید اروپا و امریکا |
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(with the exception of the newspapers of the
allies -- of
course) |
(به استثنای جراید متفقین -- بالطّبیعه) |
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severe protests on the English Government |
«پروتست»های سخت بر دولت انگلیس |
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did "support of freedom and independence of weak nations" |
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«حامی آزادی و استقلال ملل ضعیفه» نمودند |
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and God wanted that |
و خدا خواست که |
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the heavy curtain of deceit, guile, double-dealing,
hypocrisy and hypocrisy of |
پردهٔ ضخیم حیله و تزویر و دوروئی و ریاکاری و نفاق |
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the Government of England which (the 'ke' begins an
embedded remark about the fact that the curtain of the
Government had become torn which is separate from the main 'khodā
khāst' clause taking the subjunctive) |
دولت انگلیس که |
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from the beginning of this war |
از ابتدای این جنگ |
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time-after-time that it had become ripped
(end of the embedded remark) |
بهکرّات دریده شده بود |
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[that] it
become completely torn |
بهکلّی پاره گردد |
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and the kettle-drum of disgrace of it |
و کوس رسوائی او |
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should become beaten at the head of every bazaar. |
بر سر هر بازار زده شود. |
Special thanks to Mr. Hashem Hakimi
website for
graciously providing this priceless audio recording. He is a
descendent of another of the original writers of Kave,
Manouchehr Farssad (psedonym) whose real name was
Abolhassan Hakimi , a secretary to the League of Nations
in Geneva. Abolhassan went to the same school in
Antoura
Lebanon as Jamalzade and they were colleagues in the League.
Abolhassan Hakimi was Ebrahim Hakimi’s brother and the Great
Uncle of Hashem Hakimi (his father’s maternal uncle). Hashem
Hakimi is a retired diplomat. |
Citation for this article: "Dār-zadan-e Ser Roger
Kezment" [article is unsigned] (The Hanging of Sir Roger
Casement), in Kaveh (Berlin), Volume 1, Nr. 11, Tuesday 4
Ordibehest 1286 = 15 Shovvaal 1334 = 15 August 1916, pp 7-8.
Authorship of this article is attributed to Mohammad-`Ali
Jamālzādeh in the following index:
Zindagī-i ṭūfānī : khāṭirāt-i Sayyid Ḥasan Taqīʹzādah bih
kūshish-i Īraj Afshār, Tihrān : Intishārāt-i ʻIlmī, 1372.
(Series: Ganjīnah-ʼi Īrān va Īrānīyān, 8).
See page 497. |
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