Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comrade Litvinov offered secret and highly favorable terms to the Western border states for a pact guaranteeing that none of them will attack Russia's European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score of the week for the big. beaming Russian was a quiet agreement reached in the chambers of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. This cleaned up the mess resulting from Moscow's badly bungled...
...original trial Sir Joseph maintained consistently that the Hahn portrait was an 18th Century copy of the Louvre picture. Dark shadows in Mme Halm's Belle were painted with true ultramarine, a blue-black made from ground lapis lazuli, that richest of blue minerals, found chiefly in Afghanistan and Siberia, now used almost exclusively for jewelry. Harry Hahn has procured documents from the French national archives proving that lapis, expensive but available during the Renaissance, was unobtainable in 18th Century Paris. One was a letter from Louis XVI's minister at Constantinople to Catherine the Great of Russia...
...City, heading pilgrimages of 50 to 1,000 persons. The King and Queen of Italy and the King and Queen of the Belgians will be visitors, as also will such discarded monarchs as Spain's Alfonso and Victoria, Portugal's Amelie, Austria-Hungary's Zita, and Afghanistan's Amanullah, who will not bring his beauteous Moslem wife, Souraiya. President Miklas of Austria is expected. Other Catholic nations may send delegations. The Vatican has let it be known that it would appreciate a visit from President Lebrun of France...
...vote of the 51 nations still represented last week, adjourning the Conference to "Jan. 21, 1933 at the latest" passed with the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan and a total of 37 other nations voting "For Adjournment." Herr Nadolny voted "Against." Comrade Litvinov voted "For Disarmament: Against Adjournment!" Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Italy and Turkey abstained from voting...
Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...