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Afghanistan's King Mohamed Zahir Shah, 34, troubled for some time with an ailing eye, announced plans for his first trip to the U.S. to have it looked after by a specialist...
Handsome, young (32) King Mohamed Zahir Shah wound up the week's celebration by expressing Afghanistan's neutrality policy in hard-boiled terms: "Afghanistan always wished and still wishes for the respect of its rights, freedom and integrity. It cannot accept in the slightest anything injurious or limiting the rights and independence of this country...
...Russians; 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...
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...
...India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it was learned, 3,000 followers of Amanullah gathered in India, crossed the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass and started a march up to Kabul. King Mohammed Zahir Shah is accepted as a true-blue friend of the British, however, and when the British Raj in India threatened to come in and shoot them up, the rebellious tribesmen marched down again...