Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first statement to the press since he took over Lenin's job, President Rykov said that while international affairs remained complicated by the Versailles Treaty, Russia would keep a Red Army for defensive purposes. He expressed sympathy with "awakening Asia" and hoped to strengthen Russia's relations with Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, China and other countries of the East...
...extension of American banking facilities abroad would serve to hold open the channels of this foreign buying of our goods and raw materials. The near-panic of 1920 perceptibly cooled the enthusiasm for foreign banks, and subsequent years have seen their gradual disappearance. The recent retirement of the Asia Banking Corporation, whose business has been taken over by the International Banking Corporation, leaves the latter institution as the lone survivor in this field...
Professor Paul Pelliot, Professor of History, Literature, and Art of Central Asia at the College de France, Paris, will deliver the last of his Lowell Institute lectures on the history of Central Asia this evening at Huntington Hall. His subject will be "The Progress of Islam in Chinese Turkesian and China" The doors will open at 7.30 and close at 8 o'clock, when the lecture begins
...this time not only because of the course of lectures which Professor Pelliot is giving at the Lowell Institute and the exhibition of Chinese paintings being held in the Fogg Museum, but also because of the fact that Mr. Langdon Warner, "Fellow of the Museum for Research in Asia" is now visiting a famous site in Chinese Turkestan, which was the subject of investigation by Professor Pelliot...
...describing the conditions which he has observed, Professor Harlow said: "I have seen countless students, many of them dressed in patched and tattered army uniforms, with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, all through the countries of the Balkans, central Europe, and Asia Minor. Their faces are usually pinched with cold and hunger; in many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition...