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...Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
Awaiting Envoy Engert in the 6,000-foot high, mud-walled capital city of Kabul (pop. 150,000) were important talks with the young (28) king and his two trusted uncles-shrewd Prime Minister Mohammed Hashin Khan and dark-eyed War Minister Shah Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question...
During the 33-day war the Vichy forces suffered some 9,000 casualties, the Allies some 1,500. Most of these casualties could have been avoided. In mid-June, before the fall of Damascus, Vichy armistice feelers were issued to the Allies through U.S. Consul General Cornelius Engert in Beirut. Next day the British replied, offering generous terms, but the Nazis put pressure on Vichy, and the futile fighting continued nearly another month...
Officers of the League are William A. Kirstein, Tampa, Fla., president; Rolf Kaltenborn, Brooklyn, N. Y., vice president; George F. Halla, Troy, N. Y., secretary; William C. Engert, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer...
...delegating none of his powers, went about restoring Addis Ababa's water, light and telephone services. Small bands of bandits still lurked in the outskirts. Italian patrols were busy mopping them up. One hustled around to the U. S. legation on an SOS from Minister Cornelius van H. Engert. Plucky Mrs. Engert took time off to tell reporters how during the days of rioting she sat knitting, with a loaded revolver in her overcoat pocket...