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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Oh, I'm not particular as to size, so long as I'm bigger than the British Empire and the French Empire and the Dutch Empire and Belgium and the Balkans all rolled into one. You see, 90,000,000 people...
...free will," abdicated and hastily caught a plane for points west. Since then Afghanistan has changed its rulers three times. Present Afghan ruler is Amanullah's cousin, 25-year-old Mohammed Zahir Shah. He got the crown after his father, Nadir Khan, was too seriously stabbed one evening when leaving his harem...
...rulers of Afghanistan have one of the world's highest occupational mortality rates. In 20 years three kings have been assassinated and three have been forced hurriedly to abandon their thrones, while rival claimants and partisans have been frequently subjected to strangulation, stabbing, boiling in vegetable...
...court recessed, Mayfair recalled that Toffi is technically no princess. Morganatic and never recognized by the ancient Hungarian House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was her marriage to one of its scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by a few, including Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; later clung on the fringes of Lady Astor's so-called "Cliveden Set." An active intrigante, during the mission to Prague of Viscount Runciman, busy Toffi was present at at least one tea party at which she and an assortment of Germans...
Pressure for a declaration of war aims has been severe in Britain. One of the aims collapsed with Poland. Another-Stop Hitler-was negative and took no account of the future. When Belgium and The Netherlands last week proposed peace, Britain's Government tried to decide and announce what it expects of peace...