Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Ottoman Empire's European frontiers began to recede toward Asia, the Balkans have been more or less in an uproar. The Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgars, Albanians, Rumanians all had their go at the Sultan and then fell to fighting among themselves. Half the time these little nations fought as the puppets of greater European Powers, and the Peninsula's reputation as the tinderbox of Europe was well-earned...
...this time Japan had the firm idea that the U. S. was an indulgent friend. Surely the U. S. would not mind Japanese aggression in Asia, especially if it went by such a nice name as "the New Order in East Asia." Blithely the Japanese infringed the rights of U. S. citizens and U. S. property, shut diplomatic eyes to repeated protests, eagerly grasped incidents like the carrying home of Ambassador Saito's ashes on U. S. S. Astoria as examples of everlasting amity. The U. S. openly gave China commercial credits, declared a moral embargo on certain...
...buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to wreck the "New Order in East Asia...
...Colonel Mannerheim was marked as a coming man in the service of the Tsar. That year he was picked to head a sort of glorified spying expedition through Asia to Peking. Purpose of the trip was to learn how hostile mandarins and officials had accepted the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, to pick up useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made...
Because of its size and diversification the collection has become one of the most noted private herbariums of its kind in the world. It is particularly strong in types from the Americas, Asia, and Oceania...