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Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of...
Observers recalled that Stalin, though phenomenally astute in Russian matters, has never visited Europe, speaks neither English, French nor German, and is at a disadvantage when he attempts to estimate mentality and machinations of Occidental Powers.
Occidental skeptics at Peking pointed out, last week, that the ceremony just described is common enough in the Buddhist monasteries of China but differs slightly from Tibetan practice. They doubted the exactness of the Chinese newspapers as to details, but hoped that Scholar Wu Pei-fu has indeed attained a...
The spruce, dynamic Amir Amanullah of pugnacious and independent Afghanistan continued, last week, his triumphal visit in the British Isles (TIME, March 26). Featured were several new adventures designed to bring the Orient sovereign into close and striking contact with Occidental ideas and might.
Work at Harvard will begin next fall, and it is planned to add to the University Faculty some of the most distinguished sinologists that can be secured. Primary emphasis will be on the study of the Chinese language as a necessary instrument in getting first-hand knowledge of Chinese history...