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...University is taking a poorhouse attitude toward the Public Speaking Department. Its propensity to cut the Department to the bone illustrates a strange sense of proportion in budgeting money and instructors. For, with no more full time teachers than the Mongolian department, and fewer courses than Sanskrit, the Department must watch sadly while students enter the fellowship of educated men incapable of effective speech...
...those days, even the Bolsheviks admitted that China had some rights there. Said No. I Chinese Communist Mao Tse-tung to Correspondent Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow in 1936: "When the people's revolution has been victorious in China, the Outer Mongolian Republic will automatically become a part of the Chinese federation at their own will." But when the Reds finally seized China in 1949, Mao had to eat his own words. On Moscow's orders, Red China renounced all claim to Outer Mongolia...
...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 Republic . . . who has emancipated us from the imperialist [Chinese] yoke." Sweet are the uses of ritual...
Died. Kharloin Choibalsan, 56, Premier Marshal of the (Outer) Mongolian People's Republic, one of the Kremlin's hardiest puppets; of what Moscow insisted were "natural causes" (cancer of the kidney); in the Kremlin, Moscow...
Except for the Negritos, the Filipinos are basically Malayan stock with a mixture of Caucasian and Mongolian. The U.S. Supreme Court once ruled that they are not Caucasians; the state of California has ruled that they are not Mongolians. The Filipinos' own smiling explanation: a god and goddess once inhabited the earth, got lonely and decided to create man. They fashioned a man out of clay and baked it in an oven, but it was overcooked and came out black. They tried another but it was undercooked and came out white. The third was cooked to a just-right...