Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Successful in Afghanistan, the Mohammedan mullahs (priests) of Near Asia have spread their reactionary revoltings to neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
Western business than trouble in Afghanistan. Interest in Afghanistan is largely speculative. Persia contains some of the largest, richest oil deposits in the Near East. Last week in the prayers of many a British and U. S. oil tycoon, the name of Shah Reza led all the rest...
Weeping bitter salt tears last week by the bitter salt waters of Port Said was plump Amanullah, exiled King of Afghanistan. He stood by the rail of the P. & O. liner Mooltan and moaned to a battery of sympathetic reporters...
...silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...
Whatever his real reason, the suave monarch did have fun. He slept in the Prince Albrecht Palace (occupied last year by plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...