Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reds assassinated Count von Mirbach, first German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, in 1918. Some Nazi fanatic may well take offense at the Jew whom Joseph Stalin is sending to Berlin this week-short, dark, wiry Comrade Jacques Suritz. In Afghanistan they remember Jacques Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty...
...with the Soviet Union. Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich and pious, is a thoroughgoing Soviet-ophobe. Mexico extended recognition only to withdraw it with loud complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the U. S. and Uruguay...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
...Through Afghanistan, through all the bazaars of India ran contradictory rumors that the assassin had been an agent of Russia, of Amanullah, of one of Nadir's brothers. The Afghan Government branded a "low-class Afghan," one Abdul Khalliq, as the assassin, assured the Afghan Minister in London that "everything is absolutely all right...
...Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy"-but that defines nothing, least of all aggression, the primary act of war. For the first time in history aggression was defined in a binding treaty last week when Russia signed the pact with Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Estonia and Latvia...