AMERICAN EXPLORER
ENTANGLED IN FOREIGN POLITICS SERVICES TERMINATED BY HOME GOVERNMENTPress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . WASHINGTON, January 31. A routine announcement by the .De* partnient of Agriculture-revealed to* day that Mr Nicholas Roerich, the in-ternationally-known American artist and explorer, had become entangled ini turbulent- politics in China and _Manchukuo. The department indicated that it had disbanded the Asiatio Slant hunting expeditions headed by ioerich and terminated the govern* mental services of .Roerich: himself.Officials disclosed ; that. informal pro* tests against tl)e. expedition had been received from high authorities in the area in which it had been working,The case was almost unprecedented in ... the history of the department, though hundreds of similar exploring groups had been sent to virtually every country in the world.' Roerich’s special assignment on th« Chinese expedition was to find droughtresistant grass and cereal seeds.'
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Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 14
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