Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of choosing suitable royalty to adorn the frontispiece has become even more difficult. After 166 years of continuous publishing the editors decorated the flyleaf of the 1929 volume with the likeness of Amanullah of Afghanistan. Scarcely had the presses stopped rolling than Amanullah abdicated, fled his country, became the scandal of European chancellories...
Last week Habibullah Khan, ex-king of Afghanistan, né Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy bandit, was captured by victorious King Nadir, imprisoned in Kabul. Though Royal Nadir has on occasion fried Afghan generals in oil (TIME, Sept. 2), no such fate awaited Habibullah. He was taken out and humanely shot. Afghans attributed this softness to Nadir's years on the French Riviera...
...Executed. Bacha Sakao, "The Water Boy of the North," Afghan chieftain, usurper of King Amanullah's throne; at Shepur Cantonment, Afghanistan; by order of Nadir ("George Washington") Khan, his vanquisher, recently chosen king (see P.31...
Tadjikistan, both strategically and commercially important, abuts on Afghanistan and China, produces not only cotton but gold, coal, oil, iron, zinc and pigeon-blood rubies. Intensive field work by smart agents of Dictator Stalin caused Tadjiks to increase the area of their cotton fields from a mere 4,900 acres in 1917 to 240,000 acres this year. Meantime at the Moscow Government's expense 140 miles of railway are under construction in Tadjikistan, together with 312 miles of highways, 60 medical dispensaries, twelve modern hospitals...
Pretty, resourceful Mme Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion...