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...legitimized the de facto Soviet sovereignty over the Kushk district, a remote corner of the world where Afghanistan, Iran and the U.S.S.R. meet among the high pastures, vast pistachio groves and wild tribesmen who live around the ancient Oxus River.* The treaty just negotiated between Moscow and Kabul scraps two 1921 clauses which granted the people of Kushk the right to choose their own masters by plebiscite, and stipulated Russian financial and material aid to Afghanistan...
...remote Soviet-bordered Sinkiang, the Central Government made peace with rebellious Kazak tribesmen, granting them a wide measure of autonomy and thereby ending more than a decade of intermittent dispute...
...Outer Mongolia, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at a Chungking press conference, a plebiscite was under way. It was being conducted under the terms of the Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Sept. 3), which gave Outer Mongolia's one million Soviet-oriented, cattle-raising tribesmen the right to vote for fusion with China, or for autonomy...
...Russia's reluctance to quit northern Iran and her refusal to allow Iranian reinforcements to enter the Russian zone to quell rebellious tribesmen...
...weeks after the Battle of Stalingrad, Moslem tribesmen revolted in northern Sinkiang along the Outer Mongolian border. General Sheng sent three Chinese regiments and his tiny air force to put down the rebels...