1939 in Afghanistan
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See also: | Other events of 1939 List of years in Afghanistan |
The following lists events that happened during 1939 in Afghanistan.
A year of otherwise peaceful progress is broken by echoes of the trouble in Europe. The government declares its neutrality, but is reported to have ordered a general mobilization and to be exercising special vigilance on the Soviet frontier. In its attitude generally, Afghanistan is keeping touch with the other signatories of the Treaty of Saadabad, (Turkey, Iraq, and Iran).
Incumbents
- Mohammed Zahir Shah
- Prime Minister – Mohammad Hashim Khan
May 1939
It is announced that the government has decided to privatize all government-owned factories.
September 7, 1939
In the week following the German invasion of Poland, hostilities against the government are opened on the eastern border by a tribal gathering from Tirah, but it is suppressed in little more than a week by joint action on the part of the Afghan and British authorities.
December 1939
The government announces the opening of a twice-weekly bus service between