Word: asia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...midst of civil war. If the world lets go, that country as well as Russia, Austro-Hungary and Turkey, are certain to plunge into confused and hopeless civil wars. It is not for the interest of the rest of the world that half of Europe and half of Asia should be left to fall into anarchy. It is not to the interest of the United States that the spirit of division and ruin should spread into the European countries that are at present allied. International and civil wars anywhere in the world are a danger...
...present and past boundaries, of race distribution, of the distribution of coal, iron, oil, forests, and various other natural resources within the continent. There are a score of geographers available as experts at the Peace Conference. We fully expect a new geography for Europe, a new geography for western Asia, and changes in the geography of Africa and in the distribution of the islands of the Pacific...
...note of his lecture on "Greece in the Peace Conference" at the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. Dr. Kalopothakes pointed out that all that Greece desired was the incorporation of some of the peoples of Grecian blood with the mother country. This would include Northern Epirus, Thrace, Westren Asia Minor, and the islands of the Dodecanese. Greece makes no claim to the territory of the hundreds of thousands of Greeks in Russia, Roumania, and elsewhere. Dr. Kalopothakes discussed the past and present wrongs which Bulgaria, Germany's ally, had done to the Balkans and to Greece, and mentioned the atrocities...
...state and municipal demand for health officials, bacteriologists, and sanitary engineers is a constantly growing one, and the School of Public Health, in giving up its war work, will devote its energies to this field. Men will be needed for engineering work in Europe and Asia for many of the old industries must be rehabilitated, new ones established and natural resources developed. This will be especially the case in southern Europe, Russia, Siberia, and China. Be- cause of the conditions of living in these countries all who engage in such work should have a fundamental knowledge of the principles...
...result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes up its march Eastward. The great Central Empire, extending from the North Sea to Constantinople and far into Asia Minor, the German dream realized stares the world in the face...