Word: amanullah
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...Berlin this week-short, dark, wiry Comrade Jacques Suritz. In Afghanistan they remember Jacques Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty flying for his life (TIME. June 3, 1929). Successful Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
Through Afghanistan, through all the bazaars of India ran contradictory rumors that the assassin had been an agent of Russia, of Amanullah, of one of Nadir's brothers. The Afghan Government branded a "low-class Afghan," one Abdul Khalliq, as the assassin, assured the Afghan Minister in London that "everything is absolutely all right...
...Rome ex-King Amanullah wistfully but superfluously announced, 'If my people want...
...persons. The King and Queen of Italy and the King and Queen of the Belgians will be visitors, as also will such discarded monarchs as Spain's Alfonso and Victoria, Portugal's Amelie, Austria-Hungary's Zita, and Afghanistan's Amanullah, who will not bring his beauteous Moslem wife, Souraiya. President Miklas of Austria is expected. Other Catholic nations may send delegations. The Vatican has let it be known that it would appreciate a visit from President Lebrun of France...