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Taraki and Amin are not the first reformers who have tried to tame Afghanistan. A half-century ago, King Amanullah launched a crash modernization effort that had some similarities to the Taraki program. But in 1929, after he had been on the throne only ten years, a civil war broke out and Amanullah went into exile, effectively ending his rule and the modernization drive. It is a chapter of Afghan history that the country's present rulers doubtless remember all too well...
...Died. Amanullah Khan, 68, King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, who led his country into the Third Afghan War in 1919, won independence from Great Britain, but ran into so much resistance when he tried to westernize Afghanistan that he was forced to abdicate; after a long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...just before the Japanese attack in the Pacific. But diplomats still have direct wires to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo which hum with valuable information from India. The Italian legation arranged the flight from India of rabble-rousing Subhas Chandra Bose. In Rome the Italians are hopefully sheltering exiled King Amanullah (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). Under Minister Kobayashi Kikuo, a Japanese fifth column belatedly but industriously began operating in the 1930s...
Moslem tribesmen resented Amanullah's attempts to make them wear bazaar-bought pants, and they refused to tear the veils from their wives. But they learned from him how to play one great nation against another. So far in World War II they have been playing the Axis against the Allies. If Envoy Engert, over tea and mulberries, can persuade Afghan leaders that the hour for such two-way policies is running out, he can march back from Kabul a diplomatic hero...
...Majesty knows when these little courtesies count. She was not at home when ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan toured European courts, but she went out of her way to give a ceremonious welcome to Hirohito, then Crown Prince and now Emperor of Japan. Afghanistan meant nothing in The Netherlands' life; Japan, a bad neighbor in the Far East, meant a great deal...