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long as Sardar Mohammad Nadir Khan or
any one of his family was among them, they
would not be able to carry out their mis-
chievous plans.
The King, too, being young and raw, could
not see through their destructive designs. He
soon forgot the meritorious services of this
noble family and began to depend upon the
advice of those incapable and selfish courtiers,
who made him promulgate those unpopular
laws, which the nation was not prepared to
accept and ultimately brought about the
Revolution of 1924. Sardar Mohammad
Nadir Khan, then Commander-in-Chief,
wanted to settle the matter amicably by calling
a Jirgah, but the King, led astray by his
courtiers who had absolutely no knowledge of
the military superiority of the insurgents,
declared war, with what disastrous results
we have already reviewed (vide Chapter I).
Marshal Nadir Khan knew the futility of
such an action and in protest resigned his
post. He was then appointed Afghan Minister
at Paris, but even there differences with
King Amanullah Khan and his Government
obliged him to resign and retire to private life
in a quiet French villa. But though no longer
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