Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...
Zoot Suits & Rams. Jash'n Istiklal commemorates the final withdrawal (in 1919) of British military power in Afghanistan. Though the Afghans are delightedly proud of their independence, Western influence was still obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore...
Neutrality & Neighbors. Afghanistan is now on the threshold of a vast modernization program under the direction of Public Works Minister Mohamed Kabir Ludin, a Cornell graduate, whose Chief Engineer is John B. Alexander of Portland, Ore. They are now assembling material and workers to build roads, irrigation projects, airfields, hydroelectric plants and schools...
...Western influence in Afghanistan has its competition. The Russian legation in Kabul is larger than the other legations combined. Russian propaganda is hampered-not by any innate Afghan democratic leanings, but by a rigidly enforced law which makes any political talk or activity, except that sponsored by the Government, a criminal offense...
Trouble, of course, is relative. Britain still worried about Russian influence in Afghanistan, but her silence was a measure of the inflation in bad relations between the Empire and the imperial Reds...