Word: mongolians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has rummaged around the islands, looking for traces of Mongolian wanderers. First great evidence for his theory turned up in 1931, when, on the island of Kodiak, he discovered a nest of long-headed skulls remarkably similar to those of Algonquin Indians. Since the longheads bore no resemblance to the roundheaded Eskimos...
Convinced after 13 weary years that he had finally proved the Mongolian ancestry of American Indians, happy Dr. Hrdlicka started for home last week. Exactly how the original Indians reached the shores of Alaska he did not know. But he was willing to bet that, after making the arduous journey to the Siberian coast, they traveled to what are now the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands, thence to the Aleutian bridge and North America...
...neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, who works out of Tokyo, after a long, difficult trip, managed to reach the remote Mongolian frontier and began to make the war make sense...
Modern Mongols. To secure its vital flank, the Soviet Union in 1922-24 helped the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia drive out their ruling princes and establish the Mongolian People's Republic with a population of 800,000 and an area of one million square miles, almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks...
Class Struggle. Three times as many Mongols as there are in the Mongolian People's Republic live in Manchukuo and the chunk of Inner Mongolia now occupied by the Japanese. The Japanese have taken the other side of the Mongol class struggle and lavished gifts and titles on the hereditary princes who have fled from Outer Mongolia. Some day, the Japanese tell them, there will be an independent Mongol confederation and the princes dispossessed by revolution will regain their land and power. In return, when the time comes for war with Russia, they are expected to lead a counterrevolution...