Word: kabul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week from India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it was learned, 3,000 followers of Amanullah gathered in India, crossed the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass and started a march up to Kabul. King Mohammed Zahir Shah is accepted as a true-blue friend of the British, however, and when the British Raj in India threatened to come in and shoot them up, the rebellious tribesmen marched down again...
About a year and a half aw this coalition approached Seaboard. formed the exploration companies, gave Seaboard a 51% interest. Mr. Hart then began to palaver in Kabul and Teheran. Biggest stockholder in Seaboard Oil (32%) is Texas Corp. Last week Texaco filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the issuance of 1,557,000 shares of common stock, to be offered to Texas stockholders at about $40 a share on the basis of one new share for each six held. Market price of Texas common last week was $52. Of the estimated $62,000.000 proceeds from...
Seaboard's cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand...
...fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants on his tribesmen. His successor, Nadir Khan, was assassinated in 1933 after he had agreed to let Britain extend the Khyber Railway to Kabul...
...Count von Mirbach, first German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, in 1918. Some Nazi fanatic may well take offense at the Jew whom Joseph Stalin is sending to 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...