Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caught the international itch for concluding peace treaties. Last week, he proclaimed, as President of Turkey, that Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey had signed a treaty of "security and conciliation" with Italy and treaties of "security, conciliation, collaboration and active aid in case of attack" with Persia and Afghanistan...
Officials close to the Secretary of State for India said guardedly, in London, that the present activities of Colonel Lawrence began last April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
...intimation was allowed to escape with contented British smugness that Colonel Lawrence, whose Arab friends have created him a Prince of Mecca, is now using his unique influence to combat the Pan-Asiatic schemes of the Amir of Afghanistan-who recently toured Europe, was the guest of George V (TIME, March 26, April...
...people in the world. There are 29,700,000 automobiles in operation. That makes one car for every 64 persons. In the U. S., there is one for every five; in Canada and New Zealand, one for every ten; in Great Britain, one for every 41; in Afghanistan, one for every 40,000. So says the U. S. Department of Commerce...
Last week, however, Deputies of the Opposition felt safe. Pilsudski was sick. They knew that he had been too ill to receive the King of Afghanistan six weeks ago (TIME, May 14), and had lain abed ever since, some said paralyzed. Therefore the Polish Sejm (Parliament) rang with furious denunciations of the Cabinet's Budget Bill. This time there seemed no hope that it could be saved by a sudden, dramatic appearance of National Hero Pilsudski...