Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...
That Rumania, ruled by a King who is a Hohenzollern, should ever since the War have been pro-French, has long been a mystery in which the chief political magician looked like a tall, ungainly Mongol with high cheek bones who answered to the name of Nicholas Titulescu...
Ironically at this rearmament Conference, the delegates elected as their secretary obliging A. M. Agnidis of Greece, chief of the League of Nations Disarmament Section. "His leaving Disarmament for Rearmament is just one of those little contradictions which lend charm to life.'' drawled lanky, Mongol-featured Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, provoking the Conference's first laugh. Everyone else was willing to have Conference sessions open to the public, but the 7th Earl Stanhope successfully demanded that they should be secret...
GENGHIS KHAN - Ralph Fox - Ear-court, Brace ($3). Story of the medieval warrior (real name: Temujin) who brought the Mongol Empire bloodily to birth. Author Fox, young Englishman whose hobby is central Asian history and archeology, claims that this is "the only book upon the subject in English based on a study of original sources," but admits he has depended entirely on translations...
...Chinese name. His Mongol name is Dam-chukdangrub...