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Asia's Heart. The 90,000 round-faced, slant-eyed Tuvinians live in the geographical heart of Asia. They are mostly of Turkic and Mongol stock. With their 1,200,000 cattle, horses, sheep, goats, yaks and reindeer, they occupy an area about as large as Missouri. Moscow regards their evolution from nomadic tribalism to Soviet comradeship as a model of its kind...
Near Kalgan in Inner Mongolia, Chinese Communists joined up with the Red Army's Mongol units, were chagrined when they got a cold reception...
...Russians broke the hold of the lamas over the primitive Mongol sheep and camel herders. Then, in 1924, in response to one of those spontaneous popular demands that commonly follows a Red Army occupation, the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia was set up. It was nominally independent, virtually a 17th Soviet Republic...
Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...
Across the Khalka River armed Russia and armed Japan glared in hatred, waiting for the day when one would push the other from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...