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Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
Beyond the Khyber lies unruly Afghanistan and behind its King Nadir Khan looms Soviet Russia. In the past year raids, riots, savage bloodletting and civil disturbance have burst forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British...
After boiling the then king's favorite general in oil, Nadir Khan, "the Afghan George Washington," ascended the throne in picturesque Kabul and has since successfully remained there (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929 et seq.). He has waxed friendly with his neighbor to the southward beyond the Khyber Pass-Lis Britannic Majesty's colonial government in India. Thus the British have been far happier than when plump Amanullah reigned, taking millions in gifts from them but making the Russians his closest economic allies. Far, far happier are they than during the subsequent brief reign of Bandit-King Bacha Sakao...
...surrendering the viceroyalty of India last April, promulgated a press ordinance making it a jailable offense for any editor to publish an article adversely affecting the relationship of India with her neighbors; 2) on May 30 a fleet of 40 two-ton trucks went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped up through the Pass to Nadir. Object: to prevent the pants-shave-&-champagne regime of Amanullah from returning (TIME...
...British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until the tribesmen had finished their Spring harvest. Crops were poor. Last week came the attack. Riddled by machine guns, shrapnel, blasted by tons of aerial bombs, the tribes men swept...