12 MAY 1928, Page 2

We would have given much to be able to get

inside the minds of the Soviet leaders who have been entertaining King Amanullah with regal ceremonies in Moscow, or inside the mind of King Amanullah who must have had strange reflections as he watched his hosts attempting by a spectacular treachery to their principles to engage his sympathy against other monarchies. King Amanullah went through all the ceremonies with an inscrutable self- possession which did not commit him at nay point. But one ceremony he refused altogether. That was when he was invited to be present at an exhibition of aeroplanes each of which had painted on it some senti- ments abusive of Great Britain.

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