 Complete the following phrase:  Afghanistan resisted calls from Moscow and London to expel the Italian and German diplomatic corps at the beginning of the Second World War. During 1940 and 1941, there were plans initiated by Afghan economic minister Abdul Majid Zabuli for Afghanistan to join the Axis bloc in return for Germany providing additional military aid and access to the Karachi Port by taking land from British India. In addition, Zabuli spoke of liberating the 15 million strong ethnic Afghan population across the border. However following the Soviet Unions change of allegiance to the United Kingdom, and their joint 