Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on the researches and arguments of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Bohemian-born curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, the theory that North American Indians are of Asiatic origin has very nearly reached the status of a verdict by circumstantial evidence. Ethnological consensus is that the Mongol forbears of Amerindians crossed from Asia to Alaska some 15,000 years ago, crawled slowly down across Canada. From that time the story of their movement to the Eastern U. S. where white invaders found them has been fragmentary and obscure...
...Generals Tang Yulin and Liu Kwei-tang, reported in dispatches to have devastated the eastern part of the Province of Chahar. But was not this, after all, their "private war"? The Council of Generals took that view. Generalissimo Chiang had neatly solved, they felt, the larger issue presented when Mongol generals under Prince Teh Wang raised the standard of Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians (TIME, Oct. 23). To Inner Mongolia the Nanking Government thereupon sent an envoy who ''granted local self-government," but persuaded the Inner Mongols to let Nanking act for themselves in matters of foreign policy...
Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts...
Kublai, the mighty Khan who in the 13th Century ruled from the Yellow Sea to Poland, used to decree the pitching of his gorgeous Mongol tent every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers...
...amused to read on p. 28 of your April 10 issue about the airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River...