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Officials close to the Secretary of State for India said guardedly, in London, that the present activities of Colonel Lawrence began last April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
...King Amanullah an album studded with jewels. Peering within His Majesty beheld photographs of Angora as a muddy, nondescript village, which it was in 1920, when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs. But these showed only what King Amanullah could see about him: the New Angora, a city of four, six and eight-story buildings, still raw and unlovely, yet proving that at last an Asiatic people is making swift, dynamic progress...
...Moscow, they said, King Amanullah flatly refused to participate in a scheduled presentation of 49 combat planes to the Red Air Force, when he learned that the planes had been purchased from the so-called Reply To Chamberlain Fund...
...Moscow, at the Lenin Institute, King Amanullah listened placidly, while the Director of the Institute informed him in Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
Very different was the attitude of King Amanullah, in Angora last week, when President Mustafa Kemal Pasha cried, in the course of a ringing public address,: "Our nations are sisters! . . . Turkey stands ready to perform her duties toward Afghanistan...