Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...over the whole length of his snakelike route of 2,000 miles from Teheran to Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King...
...Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets...
...Spain stalking antiques. After a visit to Italy Mr. Hearst will go on to Bad Nauheim where he will learn with interest that a rabid Nazi newspaper, Deutsche Wochenschau, has spread the word that he is a "notorious Jewish agitator whose real name is Herz." In London a caravan of automobiles has been engaged to whisk the chief & retinue to the Hearst castle in Glamorgan, South Wales...
...much pressure to make the grade in the 400. Eddie Calvin is another Harvard runner who has shown in the past two years that he is capable of turning in fast times in the dashes and might very well find a place for himself in the caravan to the Coast...