Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland); the rest were rejected...
...Those wooed by both sides for their important strategic position, like Iceland and Afghanistan...
Handsome, young (32) King Mohamed Zahir Shah wound up the week's celebration by expressing Afghanistan's neutrality policy in hard-boiled terms: "Afghanistan always wished and still wishes for the respect of its rights, freedom and integrity. It cannot accept in the slightest anything injurious or limiting the rights and independence of this country...
...Afghans know that the British withdrawal from India will leave Afghanistan with only one powerful neighbor. The extra enthusiasm of Jash'n Istiklal last week might have been connected with the Government's doubt as to how long they would keep their 27-year-old independence after the British left the Khyber Pass...
...Afghanistan, desperately in need of outside supplies, was finally made eligible for Lend-Lease. A U.S. official went to Kabul to ask the Afghans what they needed most. They said "everything." He suggested medicines as a starter. The Afghan committee withdrew with a drug catalogue, returned next day with a list that began: " 1) Medicine to ease a weary heart...