Word: mongolls
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...Faber Mongol Van Dyke...
...Witches' Flight by Wassilenko was eerie music fairly descriptive of its title. Illiashenko's Dyptique Mongol dissonantly depicted the retreat of the warriors escorting dead Genghis Khan, their preparations for battle afterward. The Witches' Flight is 23 years old. And the composer of Dyptique Mongol teaches at the Brussels Conservatory, is a White Russian expatriate like Prokofiev and Stravinsky. But most people knowing that Conductor Stokowski brought the two new scores home with him on his return from Russia last spring, knowing him to be an alert musical reporter,* assumed that these importations were Soviet products...
...mountain ranges. Once an entity, it has been split up. Outer Mongolia, with Soviet help, became an independent Republic in 1924 and is still closely tied to Moscow. But fertile Inner Mongolia is still under Chinese rule. To break this rule is the task General Semenov and his willing Mongol allies have set themselves. That Japan was behind the movement, would dominate the new state if it was formed, not even the Mongol princes took the trouble to deny...
...Manchuria, Japanese lines spread over the frozen land right up to the Great Wall, clinched their hold on all of southern Manchuria. There were reports that ferocious-looking General Gregory Semenov, who led a White Army against the 'Soviet in 1917, was conferring with five Mongol Princes about a plan for promoting the independence of Inner Mongolia. Because it failed to win the support of France, Great Britain or Italy, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson's strongly worded note citing the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty (protecting China's independence) left Japanese army...
...only person in China allowed to use imperial yellow since the downfall of the monarchy. When he arrived in Peiping recently to sign his contract, he was received with royal honors by President Chiang and his northern ally Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, waited on hand & foot by Mongol princes who ordinarily have no traffic with Chinese republicans or any of their fiestas...