Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Iranian Foreign Office, the U. S. is not an important nation. Iran's best diplomats are sent to Moscow, Afghanistan and Britain. Until he was suddenly elevated to the post of chargé d'affaires, M. Hossein Ghods was a diffident, nervous little man who tiptoed about the Legation in Washington, and whose chief cross was the fact that his Minister's British wife did not like him, made him use the servants' entrance...
...great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis Ababa was ordered First Secretary Cornelius Van H. Engert of the U. S. Legation at Cairo, the State Department having discovered that he has served in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Persia and Afghanistan and speaks languages likely to be more useful in Ethiopia than Chinese...
Travelogger Lowell Thomas: "The way is not broad, but it's long-(and it was more so 40 years ago)-from Peking through inner China, along the caravan trail of silk, past the Kunlung Mountains, Afghanistan, through Eastern Turkistan and the Khyber Pass and into India...
...healed, nor were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...
Twelve other delegates from Afghanistan and Honduras have also been appointed to help thresh out international problems such as munitions, tariffs, and propaganda policies. The Afghans, headed by William I. Popper '37, will be David R. Schwartz '37, Donald F. Woods '36, and Frank E. Sweetser...