Word: afghanistan
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...only nations which have sent no immigrants are a few of the minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...These are the countries which have recognized the Bolshevik Government given in order of recognition: Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Austria, Greece, Sweden, China, Denmark, Mexico, Hungary, France, Japan...
...Bosphorus, Islam became torn by the question of the succession. Who was to be Calif of Islam? Ex-Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, who was temporal and spiritual head of Mohammedanism, said he was Calif; but that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that his deposition as Calif...
...Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan had married the Queen of Sheba. . . . "When the airmen recover they will attend the reception of the bigwigs that has been arranged...
Aside from Turkey, the Moslem world finds itself in Africa, Arabia, Persia, Russia, Afghanistan, India, China. In fact 95% of the 220,000,000 Mahammadans in the world live outside of Turkey...