Word: mongolian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese gave Mongolian nationalists a high-sounding Mongolian United Autonomous Government. They introduced a "planned economy" to exploit herdsmen and coolies, to loot mines and resources. The arrangement was eminently pleasing to the Japanese. Not only did they drain Inner Mongolia's wealth, but they had a vast buffer state against Russia and a Mongol army which kept the peace. Last week the army was gone...
Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...
...Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough to survive...
Harvard-trained Lattimore, little known to the public, is an expert's expert on Central Asia. One of the few living Americans who speak, read and write Mongolian, master of fluent Chinese (talkative Mr. Donald never spoke Chinese, disliked Chinese food) and a half-dozen Asiatic dialects, Expert Lattimore's career is a colorful one. Now only 40, he has by turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore...
Consulate in that increasingly important port. Reports from China said that no less than 3,000 trucks were negotiating the trans-Mongolian route. It was a safe bet that a good many of that 3,000 were "fleshy trucks" of the Orient: mules, donkeys, camels, horses and men of burden...