Indignantly denying that during his exile at Rome he has become a Roman
Catholic, ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan landed last week at Jidda
on the Red Sea, the port for Mecca. After a purifying pilgrimage to the
Holy City, Amanullah will try to stage a
comeback. He lost his throne in the first place , chiefly because Afghanistan's fanatical mullahs raised the
rabble against his “impious innovations”—such as store
clothes, champagne, beard-shaving. With a Meccan pilgrimage to his
credit, Amanullah, if he plays sufficiently pious politics, may be able
to coup and recoup.
