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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular Afghan ruler was Reformer-King Amanullah, who got his throne after his father had been assassinated and his uncle ousted. Amanullah had bright ideas about westernizing his backward, picturesque kingdom, but unfortunately for him he also accepted millions of dollars in gifts from the British while playing ball...
The rulers of Afghanistan have one of the world's highest occupational mortality rates. In 20 years three kings have been assassinated and three have been forced hurriedly to abandon their thrones, while rival claimants and partisans have been frequently subjected to strangulation, stabbing, boiling in vegetable oil.
Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a...
As the court recessed, Mayfair recalled that Toffi is technically no princess. Morganatic and never recognized by the ancient Hungarian House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was her marriage to one of its scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by...
For the last ten years dynamic Amanullah has played about the Lido and the French Riviera, although at home he has never been completely forgotten. Last week from India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it...