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There was new fighting in Outer Mongolia last week between Mongolian and Manchukuan troops. Details were scarce and the Nationalist Government in Nanking preferred to think of other things. And they had good news to think about. Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas, the Panchen Lama, or spiritual head, and the Dalai Lama or temporal head of Buddhism. British intrigue found the Dalai Lama more willing to listen to reason. The Panchen Lama fled to China, where for the past eleven years he has been traveling about in a bright yellow railway...
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...
...this as an opening against the dominant minority of Japanese jingoes. Asked Toshio Shimada, a Seiyukai (majority party) leader: "How does the Government reconcile the declaration of the Foreign Minister that there will be no war while he is in office with our present invasion of Inner Mongolia...
Contemptuously the Foreign Minister deigned no reply. His pacifist declaration had been made for foreign consumption, had nothing to do with the steady onrush of Japan's war machine which was crashing Inner and Outer Mongolia last week. Greatest glory of the week went to a Japanese Col. Wada, who captured a Lamaist temple on the Outer Mongolian border...
...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...