Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tyler Dennett, author of the "The Democratic Movement in Asia", and Hu Shih, from the National Peking University in China, will deliver the principal addresses on the subject, "China, Her Case Before the World...
...Rome. His Serene Highness proposed that there be a European League, an Asiatic League and an American League -each to mind its own business. Anyone who knows Admiral Horthy is familiar with his sulphurous epithets for Stalin, and the Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy-exactly the team Benito Mussolini has been trying to get going ever since...
...reach California in December. There he likes to relax by hunting butterflies. Son of a German physician and entomologist, Gieseking has one of the largest privately owned collections of butterflies in Europe. He has detected resemblances between California butterflies and European species, believes their forebears migrated by way of Asia and Alaska thousands of years ago. Once Gieseking found six caterpillars in Berkeley, took them on tour and back to Germany where, to his great pleasure, they turned out to be not only butterflies but "beautiful...
These field trips will serve to reveal the role played by the mountain making events and climatic changes that occurred during the process of human evelution in southeastern Asia...
...survey will be made of the coastal plain near Manila reported to be rich with fossils, perhaps those of the same animals which were recovered with a Java and Pekin Man. If true, such a find would be most valuable in the study of animal migrations form southeastern Asia toward the new World...