 ==africa== *  egypt **monarch - farouk i, king of egypt (1936&ndash;1952) **prime minister - **# muhammad mahmoud pasha, prime minister of egypt (1937&ndash;1939) **# ali mahir pasha, prime minister of egypt (1939&ndash;1940) *  **president - edwin barclay, president of liberia (1930&ndash;1944) *  ** monarch - george vi, king of the british dominions beyond the seas (1936&ndash;1952) ** governor-general - sir patrick duncan, governor-general of south africa (1937&ndash;1943) ** prime minister - **# j. b. m. hertzog, prime minister of south africa (1924&ndash;1939) **# jan smuts, prime minister of south africa (1939&ndash;1948) ==asia== * afghanistan **monarch - mohammed zahir shah, king of afghanistan (1933&ndash;1973) **prime minister - mohammad hashim khan, prime minister of afghanistan (1929&ndash;1946) *china ** nationalist government ***head of state - lin sen, chairman of the national government of china (1931&ndash;1943) *** premier - ***# h. h. kung, president of the executive yuan of china (1938&ndash;1939) ***# chiang kai-shek, president of the executive yuan of china (1939&ndash;1945) ** provisional government (puppet state of japan) *** head of state - wang kemin, chairman of the provisional government of china (1937&ndash;1940) ** reformed government (puppet state of japan) *** chairman - liang hongzhi, chairman of the reformed government of china (1938&ndash;1940) **  (puppet state of japan) *** monarch - puyi, emperor of manchukuo (1932&ndash;1945) *** prime minister - zhang jinghui, prime minister of manchukuo (1935&ndash;1945) ** tibet (unrecognized, de facto independent country) ***monarch - tenzin gyatso, [[dal
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