Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pangalos' Rise. During the political upheavals of 1920, General Pangalos was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff of the Greek Army in Asia Minor, a post which he had obtained by intrigue and managed to hold for only about a year. Ousted, he began to conspire with the likewise disgruntled General Kondylis (exiled last week) and with Admiral Hadjikyriakos (his present silent partner in dictatorship). In 1922, the three were about to launch a coup d'état, when two other discontented officers, Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas, got ahead of them. The adroit colonels sprang a coup of their...
...takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward of all his tribulations is only fairy gold, but the story of his life is a romance, an historical romance in which the writer has the good sense not to let history...
...eager donning of straws and white flannels, but a wireless message from the Black Sea shore informs the New York Times that twenty-four Turks have been executed for not wearing according to Mustafa Kemal's late decree, hats of the European mode. Non-conformance is costly in Asia Minor...
...policy of civilization the educated people of Asia have been forced to separate from the masses. The resulting disunion furthers Western imperialism and prevents the small Asiatic countries from gaining solidarity...
...wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan...