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23 For the Pushtunistan Manifesto, see Paul S. Jones, Afghanistan Venture
(San Antonio, tx, 1956), pp. 433–41.
24 Schinasi, Afghanistan at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, p. 219;
Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform
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25 Sims-Williams, ‘The Afghan Newspaper “Sirāj al-Akhbār”’, pp. 120–21.
26 Ludwig W. Adamec, Afghanistan’s Foreign Affairs to the Mid-twentieth
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27 Oskar von Niedermayer, Afghanistan (Leipzig, 1924); Emil Rybitschka,
Im gottgegebenen Afghanistan als Gäste des Emirs (Leipzig, 1927).
10 Dreams Melted into Air, 1919–29The title of this chapter is suggested by Prospero’s words in William
Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act iv, scene i.
1 Leon B. Poullada, Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929
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2 See Anne Baker and Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, Wings over Kabul:
The First Airlift (London, 1975), p. 43.
3 Afzal Nasiri and Marie Khalili, Memoirs of Khalilullah Khalili: An Afghan
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4 Nasiri and Khalili, Memoirs of Khalilullah, pp. 23–4.
5 ‘Amir Amanullah Khan to His Excellency the Viceroy’, 3 March 1919, in
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2008), vol. i, pp. 91–3.
6 Amir Habib Allah Khan’s letter quoted in P. Sykes, A History of Afghanistan
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7 Ibid., p. 268.
8 W. K. Fraser-Tytler, Afghanistan: A Study of Political Developments in
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9 General Staff of India, The Third Afghan War 1919, Official Account [1926]
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10 ‘Diary of the N.W. Frontier Province Intelligence Bureau’, week ending
2 March 1922, in Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence, vol. i, p. 342.
11 Ludwig W. Adamec, Afghanistan, 1900–1923: A Diplomatic History
(Berkeley, ca, 1967), pp. 113–14.
12 Sardar Shah Wali Khan, My Memoirs (Kabul, 1970), pp. 7–26.
13 Personal communications from various Afghans.
14 Khan, My Memoirs, pp. 23–6; Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence of Modern
Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880–1946 (Stanford, ca,
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15 General Staff of India, Third Afghan War, p. 128.