NEW AGA KHAN ENTHRONED
Moslem Ceremony In Tanganyika (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) DAR-ES-SALAAM (Tanganyika), October 21. Prince Karim was enthroned today as the new Aga Khan before a wildly-excited throng of Ismaili Moslems and was crowned with a golden turban on a dais decked with 4000 flowers. After the ancient traditional ceremonies the new ruler, who is 20, spoke on the atomic age, the Soviet earth-satellite, and the importance of education. The son of Prince Aly Khan. Prince Karim, by the wish of his grandfather, becomes the spiritual leader of the 20-million strong Ismaili Moslem sect, whose representatives bowed before him and pledged their allegiance. The Aga Khan said in a filmed television interview broadcast today that he hoped to return to Harvard University in September. 1958, to study Oriental history, says a London message.
He was speaking in a 8.8. C. programme.
He said that the next year he would be travelling among his people in East Africa. Pakistan, and India, and also visiting smaller Ismaili communities.
Asked what were the main problems confronting him, he replied: "At the moment they are the same problems as the ones my grandfather faced all his life —education, health, and the political side of the community.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 16
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