Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Held a state luncheon for visiting Sardar Mohammed Daoud, fierce-eyed, austere Prime Minister of neutral Afghanistan, while the U.S. firmed up plans to give Afghanistan $26 million more in aid. The money will be used to fix the roads so that the U.S.S.R.'s landlocked southern neighbor can ship its Persian lamb pelts to free-world markets...
...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...
...harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint communique that, to the State Department's pleased surprise, included Afghan approval of the U.S.'s Middle East objectives: economic growth and national independence...
...have been depending on the Russians for essential supplies and increasing economic aid since last July, when Pakistan shut down the Khyber Pass over a territorial dispute with Afghanistan. But the family that governs Afghanistan (through King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his strong-willed brother-in-law, Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan) took special precautions against too conspicuous a welcome to the northerners. Few flags or banners were hung in Kabul's streets. The public was not told of the coming visit, and the government did not even confide to foreign embassies what day the Russians would arrive...
When the Soviet ambassador suggested to Foreign Minister Sardar Mohammed Nairn Khan (a younger brother of the Premier) that Bulganin and Khrushchev might like to address a big public meeting or two, Nairn replied that the Afghan winter was too cold for the distinguished guests to stand in the open for long. "Oh," replied the Soviet ambassador, "our leaders are accustomed to cold...