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Asia. April 1940

1940

If under such leadership victory should come to the Allies the great test of the orderly forces of the world will come in the organiztion of the peace. [...] Second the introduction of the motor car has reduced the importance of the camel accelerated the desert's tempo and cotributed to the economic hopelessness of nmadic existence. [...] The last of the revolts in the desert took place in 1929 when Sheikh Feisal ad-Dawis gathered the disgruntled Bedouins and led them against Ibn Saud and the Ikhwan in a pathetic attempt to recapture the fading glory of the desert. [...] One was the military uprising in the last days of February 1936; the other was on the eve of the signature of the Anti-Comintern Pact so spectacularly repudiated by Germany itself in 1939. [...] Japan's greatest revolution its transformation from a state of rigorous seclusion into one of eager adaptation of western inventions and customs was carried through in the name of the Emperor by the group (in Japan it is always "the group" rather than the individual that gets things done) of young clan leaders who wielded power in the name of the Emperor after the overthrow of the decadent Shogu
history
Pages
60
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
167-169 Richard Walsh view
The Month in the Orient
170-170 Richard Walsh view
Trade Currents
171-171 Eliot Janeway view
The Asia Mail
172-174 Richard Walsh view
No Nazi Revolt in the Desert
175-178 Ladislas Farago view
As I Think of Japan Now
179-182 William Chamberlin view
North China Fails Japan
183-186 Richard Walsh view
Quackery in Syria
187-192 Khalil Wakim view
I go Home From America
193-197 Lin Yichin view
A Muslim Leads the Congress
198-198 Anup Singh view
In Spring Life is Victorious
199-202 E.S. Drower view
Folk Singers of Soviet Asia
203-206 Richard Walsh view
Chinese Want thai Friendship
207-208 Cheng Tze-Nan view
War-Time Colleges Carry on
209-211 Richard Walsh view
India Enters the Machine age
212-216 Dorothy Orchard view
The Iranian Plateau Race
217-221 Henry Field view
Asia Book—Shelf
222-224 Richard Walsh view
Coming in Asia
225-225 Richard Walsh view
Backmatter
i-i Richard Walsh view

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