Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the official attitude of the Soviet State toward Afghanistan was discreetly set forth by Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin in a long editorial which he contributed to Izvestia. Naturally Comrade Tchitcherin omitted to mention the matter of subsidies (bribes) which have been paid to King Amanullah at various times by both Great Britain and Russia. Nor did the Foreign Minister allude to arrangements with His Majesty which have occasionally furthered the infiltration of Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance...
Upon these three points alert folk fixed their attention, deeming them trustworthy guideposts for a swift survey of Afghanistan...
Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of the fanatically warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
...further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven-seater three-motored airplane. Generally speaking the Monarch's circumspection in letting contracts or concessions may be considered as due to the fact that the securities market is not yet ripe for any investment in Afghanistan. As the country becomes gradually civilized-a process which King Amanullah is furthering by every means in his power-Afghanistan will indeed open up as a land of richest mineral promise and virgin soil...