Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precedent which would hurt the secure position of England in India: That clause in the League of Nations compact which rules out domestic questions from the jurisdiction of the League is the badge which protects and furthers the imperialistic hold of the great powers over the lesser ones in Asia and Africa. Thus the League will not definitely undertake the straightening out of political injustices obtaining in Asia and Africa until the countries making up the two continents exhibit their physical prowess by staging such bloody performance as the World...
...Mayar were a true branch of the American Indian race, virtually or entirely uninfluenced by contact with Asia or any other part of the Old World. The earliest of their dates carved in stone which has yet been found corresponds to 98 B. C. in our calendar. Harvard University recently announced Dr. Spinden's discovery that the beginnings of the annual calendar and the Venus calendar of the Mayas must be carried back to dates between...
Professor Earle, who was formerly Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the youngest authoritative students in this country of the Near East. He has spent several months during the last two years in the Asia Minor countries and is thoroughly acquainted with the situation...
...France has been in Syria since 1919, partly by right of treaty and partly by right of conquest. The conquest element was the less important of the two. The French have never kept a very large army in the Asia Minor country and most of that army was composed of natives. The conquest was involved in the bombardment of Damascus. The commander of the French army issued an ultimatum to the Syrian government which was answered and given to the French representative in Damascus, who delayed it until the time had expired and the army marched on the city...
Moreover, the uni-continental theory has too many historic possibilities to be lightly tossed aside. It is at once the key to the vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World...