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...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
...evening His Majesty was leaving his harem. Too late he saw Death awaiting him. A man shot three bullets into him before, spare and powerful, Nadir Khan stumbled bleeding upon his assailant. He got the feel of the man in his hands but the other had a knife. The King's spectacles fell off his nose and shattered on the pavement. As the cold steel went deep in him. Nadir Khan fell down dead...
...detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious...
...pages Cummings meticulously chronicles a 36-day trip from Paris to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul and back to France again. His account of Russia is not friendly. To his ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None...
...ready to kill herself for having misbehaved with a young Italian in Cannes. The aviatrix and Sir Christopher Strong are as sad about their attachment as possible. She flies grimly around the world; he meets her glumly in New York. Their depression, induced by gallantry, reaches its nadir when the aviatrix learns that she is going to have a baby. She hops into her plane, flies as high as she can, removes her oxygen mask...