Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported by correspondents but the subject of Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts is due to the young men who are only one in 20 of us. All the rest are loyal and we pray the Government to show pity...
Beyond the Khyber lies unruly Afghanistan and behind its King Nadir Khan looms Soviet Russia. In the past year raids, riots, savage bloodletting and civil disturbance have burst forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
Last week in Lahore came fruit of Lord Irwin's gag law. Murtz Ahmad Khan, editor of the (Persian-language) weekly Afghanistan, recently had published an editorial under the heading: WHY DOES NOT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN RESIGN? This violated Lord Irwin's law; Murtz Ahmad Khan was arrested, put on trial...
...marched a tall, tough, wiry man who has travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...