Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railways could be built in Sinkiang, Manchuria, Tibet and Mongolia, and if all these railways could be linked into one system," said Sun Yat-sen long ago, "then China's people would have cheap food to eat." Red China and the Soviet Union are now building Sun Yat-sen's railroads, with a notably different purpose. They mean, by 1957, to bring Communist power by rail into Asia's heartland, to forge new steel bands across the world's greatest continent and to consolidate their grand alliance...
...best thing he can do now is to go to Upper Mongolia, get on a yak-and stay there. His elevation to the Supreme Court is probably the worst appointment since Caligula made his horse a consul...
...declaration of war against the U.S.S.R., but it meant that Formosa no longer recognized Russia's right to be in Dairen and Port Arthur, or any other Russian rights on the Chinese mainland, and it implied a restoration of the Chinese claim to Outer Mongolia (which, according to the 1945 treaty, was to become an independent nation but which actually has long been swallowed by Russia...
...Blood. Historian Prawdin starts his story with Temuchin, son of a minor tribal chieftain, who bound the wandering nomads of Mongolia into a military state. As Genghis Khan, chieftain of chieftains, he eventually controlled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Himalayas...
...orders from the Kremlin) he got the kind of welcome given only to the head of a sovereign state. Tsedenbal signed a ten-year treaty with Red China pledging cultural, economic and educational exchanges. No mention was made of a military alliance, thus underlining the fact that Outer Mongolia's only military connections are with the Soviet Union. At lavish banquets celebrating the pact, Premier Tsedenbal toasted both Mao and Stalin, but for every toast honoring Mao, the "great leader of the Chinese people," there were at least six eulogies of Stalin, hailed as the "Father of the Mongolian...