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Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...
Pious Afghans rejoiced last week as their new king, Nadir, "the Afghan George Washington" (TIME, Oct. 21). re-established prohibition in harmony with the holy commandment of the Koran: God declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and diving arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them, that you may prosper...
Good King Nadir wisely and benevolently announced last week that his prohibition law will apply only to native Moslems, will exempt Christian and other foreigners whose holy books enjoin them to take wine...
...official of my government or member of Parliament who is found in an intoxicated condition." thundered Nadir, "will be stripped of his rank and severely punished...
...Executed. Bacha Sakao, "The Water Boy of the North," Afghan chieftain, usurper of King Amanullah's throne; at Shepur Cantonment, Afghanistan; by order of Nadir ("George Washington") Khan, his vanquisher, recently chosen king (see P.31...