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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion of Indian Universities by C. Balakrishna Roa is an Oxford contribution and a good one. Unlike so much of the writing emanating from that source it does not drown the substance in epigram...

Author: By Professor OF Economics and Edward S. Mason, S | Title: Mason Notes Guardian's Rise From Diaper Stage in Review | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

Lone Surrender, At Fenàroa, 350 miles away, Italian General Bastico had set up the headquarters of the Third Army Corps, whose duty it is to protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Occupation | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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