RUSSIAN PRESS WELCOMES AFGHAN 'RULER AS FRIEND.
“BOTH NATIONS BOUND BY THEIR HOSTILITY TO GREAT BRITAIN.” (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MOSCOW, April 29. In anticipation of King Amanullah’s visit the official Press welcomes him as a progressive ruler of a friendly people, bound to the Soviet by ties of blood for over a decade. The Press justifies the welcome to a reigning monarch by explaining that Afghanistan and Russia are in different stages of historical development. x
The newspaper " Pravda ” says that the Soviet and Afghanistan are united by common hostility to British Imperialism.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18452, 1 May 1928, Page 10
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