Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This room, again, is a melting pot for all the interest and experiences of its occupants. Some of the men have just got back from Europe, Asia, or Timbuctoo, and some are just going there. All the information of worth is circulated, and soon the new thoughts and facts have been passed on for the good of the whole. In the same way, books and periodicals of note and interest go around and are discussed. There may be a few nonconformists of course, who are repelled by such a frankly communal organization but for those who are willing to give...
...predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will receive the land hungry Japanese before there will be forced upon an unwilling west. This news is the information of a newspaper correspondent who has interviewed a number of prominent Japanese and finds them...
Mohammed VI. At San Remo, Italy, the deposed Sultan Mohammed VI kept in close touch with the doings of the Cairo conference. When he ascended the Turkish throne (1918) his subjects numbered 12 millions. His realm embraced both Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia - nearly half a million square miles, including Anatolia, Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic now holds in Europe only the zone of Constantinople, and in Asia little more than Anatolia and Kurdistan...
...following article was written for the Crimson by Langdon Warner '03, a Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia, on the last Chinese expedition which representatives of the Museum have taken part in. Mr. Warner and his associates returned to this country last spring and are now preparing the material they collected there for exhibition in the Fogg Museum. The 1924-25 expedition, which is the latest of Mr. Warner's several trips in China, was impeded by the fighting which was taking place in eastern China at that time. The party took a large number of photographs...
...Further than this, there is nothing specific which can be done to define the relations of the white man to the yellow. The progress of comity awaits a superstructure of fellowship to be built with social segregation as basis. It is none too good a foundation. The reluctance of Asia to relegate itself to cramped quarters for the sake of mere amity with a nation of abundant land, must commend itself somewhat to those who realize the fierceness of the Caucasian conquests of new worlds...