Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most celebrated spy, reputed kinsman of George Bernard Shaw, arrived at Plymouth, England, last week from India, having traveled third class under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan (TIME, Jan. 28). Admissions that he had been stationed at Peshawar, India, on the Afghan border, were coupled with the lame assertion that "Lawrence was granted no leave of absence from his duties as a private in the Royal Air Force." As everyone knows, British R. A. F. planes...
Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child...
Even wiliest Oriental priests and brigands were baffled, last week, by the double and triple crossing executed by Amanullah of Afghanistan. Was he still king or wasn't he? As first unfolded by the world press, the story was of deceptive simplicity. It was a good story, too, for headlines blared...
...AFGHANISTAN HAS THREE KINGS IN ONE WEEK...
...name of the late father of Amanullah and Inayatullah, the usurper seemed to have aggravated his deed by adding every insult and presumption to injury. Radio flashes from Kabul first told that the Third-King-of- the-Week had restored order, then envisioned the British Minister to Afghanistan, Sir Francis Humphrys, as standing on the roof of his legation, peering about through powerful field glasses, espying only cowed citizens and their ferociously armed conquerors. Some of the bandits were described as "swathed in cartridge belts up to the eyes," and "jingling with as many as three rifles, six pistols...