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AMANULLAH

vr&s the Hist clash of steel in a war which sent a strong
man scuttling like a rabbit down to safety; that sent
airplanes zooming over the impregnable hills every day
for a month, carrying back refugees from a land gone
religiously crazy; the snip of those scissors echoed
round the hills ; it brought back crucifixion in Kabul,
and the shooting of the live bodies of men from the
mouths of cannon; it caused men to be boiled in oil
once more ; it caused the men of the hills to sharpen
their knives and creep down upon the rich granaries;
a palace shot up to the sky in flames; the silks and
satins of Regent Street and the frocks and fancies of
the Rue de la Paix fed the flames ; it set the wireless
crackling over all the world with the decisions of the
consulates; it began the greatest " as you were"
order in the East.

Signor Pierri and I watched from our park benches.

"I was aware, you will remember," said Signor
Pierri, readjusting his tie, " that this was to be a
gala. ..."

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