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...great progress made by Chinese archaeology in the last thirty years with the exception of prehistory, is mainly due to work done on the outskirts of China, by the Japanese in Core, a, by the French in Indo-China, by British. German, French, Japanese, and Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning...
...Novgorod in the Low Country, Tchernigov, Rjasan, Polotzk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bialosero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Bitebsk, Mstislavl and Lord of All Northern Lands and Lord .of Iveria, Kartalinia and Kabarda and Hereditary Lord and Master of the Provinces of Armenia, Circassia and of the Mountain Princes and others, Lord of Turkestan. Heir of Norway, Duke of Schlcsvig-Holstein, Stoonmark and Oldenburg...
Next Thursday, October 4. Owen Lattimore will give an illustrated lecture on "The Desert Road to Turkestan" in the Fogg Museum at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is given under the Harvard Yen Ching Institute, and is open to members of the University...
Because the great Leon Trotsky, creator of the Soviet Red Army, has dared to oppose Dictator Josef Stalin, he is now in remote exile on the border of Chinese Turkestan (TIME, Jan. 30). Exiled at the same time were 50 oppositionists, 38 of whom at once recanted and protested their absolute submission to the Dictator. Last week these recanted trucklers to Josef Stalin were allowed to return from exile and were readmitted to the Communist Party. Chief of the three dozen is Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and onetime Director of the Third International, the . Moscow bureau...
...Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience. Last week, at Manhattan, Poet Max Eastman returned good for evil by making public a letter from Russian Communist friends purporting to reveal, for the first time, precise details of M. Trotsky's enforced setting...