Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before in history, except possibly at the court of Genghis Khan at Karakorum, has there been such a coming & going of representatives of races from all the ends of the earth. Chinese statesmen, a British archbishop, American generals, Azerbaijanian revolutionists, Indian conspirators, Mongolian ministers, Poles, Persians, Rumanians, Finns, Czechs, Germans, Frenchmen, Turks, Koreans, Australians, Canadians, Norwegians and many more have been received on this field in public panoply while the band struck up the Soviet anthem...
...take over next month from the present "caretaker" government, pending India's full dominion status. Five of the 14 seats were reserved for Moslems, but since Jinnah's Moslem League has refused to participate, Wavell appointed nonLeague Moslems. One of these, Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, who clung to his British title and resigned from the League three weeks ago, was attacked apparently by co-religionists at Simla at week's end, stabbed seven times, hospitalized...
...Khan, balanced against diamonds in Tanganyika in a repeat of last spring's ceremony in Bombay (TIME, March 18), was down a half-pound; but at 243 there was still no cause for worry...
...week's end, 61 titled Moslems-seven knights, 28 Khan Bahadurs, 26 Khan Sahibs-had solemnly renounced their British honors in protest against wholehearted British cooperation with the Congress Party, which represents India's overwhelming, untitled majority...
...Robert Fluker, an ex-Kansas football star, now teaching math at Kabul University, tried to give the Afghans some good, clean fun by organizing the country's first boxing matches and baseball games. Premier Sha'h Mahmoud Khan, who has a son at Harvard (and is a Gershwin fan), lobbed out the first ball, and smiled inscrutably as the game progressed from error to error. Since Afghan bagpipers on the sidelines tootled furiously and folk dancers whooped and whirled, the errors were understandable...