Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...Moscow, at the Lenin Institute, King Amanullah listened placidly, while the Director of the Institute informed him in Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
Very different was the attitude of King Amanullah, in Angora last week, when President Mustafa Kemal Pasha cried, in the course of a ringing public address,: "Our nations are sisters! . . . Turkey stands ready to perform her duties toward Afghanistan...
Replied His Majesty, altering only the sex of the metaphor: "Afghanistan, too, stands ready to accomplish all brotherly duties toward Turkey...
Thereupon, a treaty of alliance between Turkey & Afghanistan was signed, and shortly afterward the King & Queen set out for Afghanistan and their own capital, Kabul...