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...King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Finally the official attitude of the Soviet State toward Afghanistan was discreetly set forth by Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin in a long editorial which he contributed to Izvestia. Naturally Comrade Tchitcherin omitted to mention the matter of subsidies (bribes) which have been paid to King Amanullah at various times by both Great Britain and Russia. Nor did the Foreign Minister allude to arrangements with His Majesty which have occasionally furthered the infiltration of Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance...
...less notorious than the fierceness and atrocious cruelty of Afghans in battle, is their characteristic instability which gave rise to the Indian proverb: "Trust a Snake before a Harlot, and a Harlot before an Afghan." Naturally assassinations of Afghan rulers have been frequent, and indeed the present King Amanullah came to the throne in 1919 only after other persons had murdered his father, Habibullah, and he himself had forcibly wrested the succession from an uncle and two elder brothers. His Majesty's principal distinction is to have forced Great Britain in 1921 to acknowledge the complete independence of Afghanistan...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
Commercial Opportunities. Keenest disappointment is felt by business firms in European capitals visited by King Amanullah that he let practically no important contracts, and made few large purchases, except to buy some furniture for his new palace, several airplanes, and a brace of automobiles. It is not true, as has been widely stated, that Their Majesties in purchasing clothes and personal effects, carried the goods away on credit and have not yet paid. It is true that they received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven...