Word: afghans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When Captain Roberts went to his lonely blockhouse on the Afghan border he left another man's wife behind him. She did not write; he wondered why. When Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again...
...British Isles breathed easier, but Britons on the spot continued acutely anxious as tens of thousands of natives in small white "Gandhi caps" paraded through Bombay, thousands through such cities as Calcutta and Madras. At Poona paraders carried a likeness of George V festooned with old shoes. From the Afghan frontier came news that shrewd Afghan traders were refusing Indian coins stamped with the Emperor's head, saying "George's head is like Amanullah's* now-no good...
Riots and demonstrations throughout India last week showed that the spreading ripple of St. Gandhi's movement for independence (TIME, March 24, et seq.) has widened to reach Peshawar near the remote Afghan frontier...
...Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority"; 5) the Government clapped an official censorship on all the northwestern provinces, ordered evacuation of European women and children from Peshawar and other cities on the Afghan frontier...