Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Chiang, while remaining Generalissimo, resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, only recently returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang...
...Egypt fought Europe in the times of the Crusades, defeated her and captured European kings. Egypt threw British troops into the sea. Egypt's southern boundary extends as far as the equator. Egypt is the centre of the world, the Mother of Civilization, and the Cradle of all religions. Your motto must be: 'Allah, the Fatherland and the King...
Three years ago they made their first extensive venture outside of their own country, giving concerts in the principal European capitals with great success. The present chorus consists of picked singers from a much larger number...
...lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books that can tell them much about the country they travel. The last official U. S. Baedeker appeared in 1909. Written for European tourists, it contained such useful information as that carrying firearms was no longer necessary in the U. S., travel now being "as safe as in the most civilized parts of Europe." But it did advise Europeans to bring their own matches, buttons, ribbons, needle-&-thread, dress gloves...
...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...