Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides this, these various Graduate Schools draw their members from more than three hundred different colleges and universities throughout the country and from the principal countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and from Australia, including Armenia, South Africa, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Mexico, the Philippine Islands, Norway, Sweden and Turkey. Strange to say, China, Japan and South Africa contribute the largest number of the foreign students...
Greece has important projects in Asia Minor and Turkey which it will be difficult for her to consummate unaided. She needs loans and credit, troops and munitions; what is more, she needs the backing of Europe's influence. From present accounts, none of these things will be forthcoming. Constantine may be a popular here, and Greece may enjoy the luxury of his regal presence in Athens; but that luxury is apt to be an expensive...
...Vladivostok, from which it is unlikely that she will be driven by Russia; she has Port Arthur, Darien, the South Manchurian coast, and Shantung and the adjoining part of the Northern Chinese coast. The province of Chientao is the only remaining gap in the control of all the Northern Asia coast. And it is just at Chientao that the bandits broke out in lawlessness which demands the landing of Japanese troops to restore order. There is even more coincidence in the official evidence that most of the bandits in this region and all over Manchuria are equipped with Japanese arms...
...White Australian policy," said Mr. Vaughan, "is one designed to keep Australia free from such racial problems as exist in this country and in South Africa. It is a policy directed towards the total exclusion from the Commonwealth of all nations of Asia. But if danger threatened it would equally apply to colored people of other countries. All parties are agreed as to the wisdom of such a policy...
...Torrens System of Land Transfer and a whole volume of laws dealing with industrial relations have been the fruit of our government of the Island Continent. This legislation has been copied far and wide. We could not continue this work if we were overwhelmed by a colored horde from Asia...