Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been drawn up. It was decided to improve two Persian Gulf ports, Iran's Bandar Shahpur and Iraq's Basra (see map). Road and rail links with Teheran and Tabriz would be improved or completed as soon as possible. Auxiliary lines, from India via Baluchistan or Afghanistan, and from the Mediterranean via Syria or Palestine, may also be developed. But all this would take a long time...
...east are Afghanistan, a hair-triggered zone of worry to British India, and Baluchistan, western gateway to British India itself. Whichever warring side gains a foothold in Iran can jump off into any of these vital sectors...
Well aware are the Turks that their country offers Hitler the best road to Suez, the shortest land route to Russia's Transcaucasian oil fields (and to Iran, Afghanistan, India, beyond). Since the Balkan campaign, Nazi pressure on Turkey has increased notch by notch, with troop concentrations in Bulgaria, fortification of islands in the Aegean off the Turkish coast, increasing activity of Nazi agents behind Turkey's back (particularly in Iran). Economic pressure, too, has steadily risen since the German-Turkish trade pact was signed in June...
...Tibet and Afghanistan...
...little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where the U. S. S. R. borders on Afghanistan, on India and on China, the Soviet Government has zealously invested men & money, on the theory that Russia's Asiatic borderlands can properly be defended only if they are properly developed...