Afghanistan and the League Both geography and history combine to
lend importance to the entry of Afghanistan into the League of Nations. The country is part and parcel of the problems of India, but relations between Kabul and Delhi have been improv- ing steadily, and it was appropriate that one of the strongest speeches in favour of the new State's admission should have been made on Wednesday by Sir Denys Bray on behalf of the Indian Delegation. With Russia touching her other frontier it was appropriate that Afghanistan and the IT.S.S.R. should join the League at the same Assembly. Afghanistan, moreover, is emerging swiftly—at one moment the process became two swift—from her age-long isolation. It is to her own interest, and almost equally to that of her neigh- bours, that her development should be based on the principles laid down in the League Covenant and that she should profit both by the political experience and the technical assistance available to her at Geneva.
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