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...Days of Ma. The story behind this news was twelve years old, a suppressed fragment of modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated...
Bulgarian Plots. Last week, London heard rumors that Turkey had declared war on: 1) Germany, 2) Bulgaria. All that happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...
...greatest producer of second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
...umbilicus betweenAsia and Europe. Its broad steppes in the north and lush valleys in the south have offered a natural highway for migrating hordes. Its mountains, higher than any in Europe, run from northwest to southeast and form natural bastions for defenders. Successive waves of Persians, Khazars, Arabs, Huns, Turko-Mongols and Russians have died in defense of narrow Caucasian mountain passes, or in trying to storm them...
...newly elected president had occupied the ticklish Nipponese post since his appointment by President Hoover in 1932. But this assignment was only the climax of a career marked by the handling of unmerous delicate situations, including management of the Berlin Embassy in 1917, and the negotiation of the American-Turko Treaty...