Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious Ahmad Shah by the simple expedient of blowing him from the muzzle of his biggest cannon...
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...
Permitted to file a list of witnesses as to the truth of his editorial, Murtz Ahmad Khan named the Foreign Secretary, the Afghan Consul General, the Director of Public Information, et al. The court ruled that these witnesses were too important, that they could have no connection with the case, that the defendant must list names of lesser stature...
Impartial observers predicted that Murtz Ahmad Khan would go to jail...
Bahaism was originally introduced into the U. S. at the Chicago World's Fair Congress of Religion (1893). Mirzah Ahmad Sohrab, who assisted at the Manhattan ceremony last week, accompanied Abdul-Baha on U. S. visits during 1911-14 as his secretary. Today he is the leader of U. S. Bahaism, which differs slightly from the Persian. Some 6,000 U. S. cultists are spread throughout the country with centres in Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco. Manhattan headquarters under the title of the New History Society are at the home of Mrs. Chanler, mother of last week...