Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nations flayed by prominent Congress speakers were: the U. S., for failing to grant Bolsheviks a whopping loan; Japan, for invading Inner Mongolia and clashing even with Red Outer Mongolia (see p. 22); Germany, for continuing to balk France and Russia in their efforts to get that power to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July...
...personal tour through Northern China was to buy with elaborate bribes the loyalty of Mongolian princes in Chahar. Chahar would be important to Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably...
...trod in many ages, from the time Edward I drove him out of England down to the latest edict of Realmleader Hitler. When Mr. Nathan picks up the thread of this millennial-long Diaspora, every country on the face of the earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages as it is wandering across Hungary and through the passes of the Carpathians, some twelve-months distant in time from the allotted refuge in the Gobi Desert. There are banking Jews from the Paris Bourse, London...
...addition to his work here, where he was intimately connected with the Peabody Museum as Curator of Ethnology, Mr. Dixon made several expeditions to Mongolia and Siberia. He made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the physiography and geological formation of Northern Asia and established reciprocal relations between Siberian Museums and similar institutions in the United States in 1901, which have resulted in much valuable information concerning Mongolia...
...back, Indian nuns and Chinese priests, a pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch and wait patiently- a policy borne out by the Church's 20 centuries of mission experience...