Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chandni Chauk troops were drawn up under the old Mogul Fort built by Shah Jahan, who also built the Taj Mahal. (Inside the Fort, where the Shah kept his harem, the walls are inscribed: "If there is a heaven, this is it, this is it!") At the other end of the area, mounted police faced Congress adherents packed in the Clock Tower Square...
...finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
Awaiting Envoy Engert in the 6,000-foot high, mud-walled capital city of Kabul (pop. 150,000) were important talks with the young (28) king and his two trusted uncles-shrewd Prime Minister Mohammed Hashin Khan and dark-eyed War Minister Shah Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question...
Direct Wires. All non-diplomatic Axis technicians and tourists were expelled by Zahir Shah's government just before the Japanese attack in the Pacific. But diplomats still have direct wires to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo which hum with valuable information from India. The Italian legation arranged the flight from India of rabble-rousing Subhas Chandra Bose. In Rome the Italians are hopefully sheltering exiled King Amanullah (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). Under Minister Kobayashi Kikuo, a Japanese fifth column belatedly but industriously began operating in the 1930s...
Reza Pahlavi, ex-Shah of Iran, who has been confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, got permission to go to Canada with his family...