Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges of "supineness toward Japan," may now be ready to yield to the blandishments of Tokyo and its Shanghai Lily. Such a development, in which monstrous Japanese bribes would play an inevitable role, may well prove for China the turning point in her 20th Century history, a turning toward Asia for Asiatics with Japan at the controls...
...GATHORNE-HARDY has written an admirably condensed yet complete summary of international affairs during the years 1920 through 1934. No incident, phase or aspect has been neglected; the Near East, Asia and the Far East receive proportionate treatment to that given European affairs, but despite the mass of material close attention is paid to unity, with the result that, the book is possibly more of a narrative than an academic discussion...
...could be made into an interesting story in itself. A rich, intelligent Jew incurs the curse of Christ and is compelled to wander around the world until Christ returns to lift the curse. From the time of Calvary until the Spanish Inquisition the man roams from Asia Minor to Greece, Sicily, and at last Seville, having a life of licentiousness and selfish ease...
Claude Vannec, a young French archeologist who feels himself an Ishmael, is on his way to Cambodia, obsessed by dreams of Asia: "The marching forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone...
...CHANGING ASIA - Egon Erwin Kisch-Knopf ($3). A famed Czechoslovakian reporter's visit to the land of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan. Under the impact of Soviet five-year-planning Turcomen and Uzbeks are leaping from the age of the camel caravan to the age of the motor truck in one jump...