Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province. There last week Britain slapped down with overwhelming force a perilous little rebellion, just north of Khyber Pass, in the land of the Upper Mohmands...
...Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...ordered garlic issued to his 2,000 track workers "to give them strength." Springing to action at 5 a. m. 96 gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...
...anti-Jewish fortnightly Am Heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft ("At the Holy Well of German Power"), conducted by General Erich Ludendorff who used to rate as a crackpot. Last week a Ludendorff editorial announced that the Jewish people are secretly supporting the Japanese people to launch a war of Asia against Europe, "so that the nations shall tear each other to pieces for the benefit of the Jews...
...Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably resides the cultural leadership of Asia. . . . Two years of undeclared war with Japan have not perceptibly shaken China" but if Japan succeeds in detaching Chinese Turkestan "that would complete a period of fifty years of decline, during which 3,000,000 square miles of territory had been detached from the anatomy of China...