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...anti-New Dealer as any ex-officeholder. But Franklin Roosevelt tapped him early in World War II for a wide variety of ticklish diplomatic junkets. They have carried him at least three times across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and into six continents-to Moscow, Canberra, Cairo, Kabul, Natal and points between and beyond. Franklin Roosevelt once confessed that only two men on earth understand how he and Pat manage to get along together: the other man is Pat himself...
...surprise was the revelation that two new supply routes to replace the lost Burma Road were in "full readiness" to handle U.S. supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu...
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...
From the German legation a stream of gold has found its way to rebellious border tribes. From German radio stations comes a daily prod at old battle sores, a yammering about high food prices in Kabul, British bumbles, the shortage of wartime supplies. The Afghan government is promised "the lost provinces of the Indus" in the event of-Axis victory...
...play one great nation against another. So far in World War II they have been playing the Axis against the Allies. If Envoy Engert, over tea and mulberries, can persuade Afghan leaders that the hour for such two-way policies is running out, he can march back from Kabul a diplomatic hero...