EXPLORER’S DISMISSAL.
U.S. GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION
United Press Assn.—By Electric T elegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON. January 30.
A routine announcement by the Department of Agriculture revealed to-day that Nicholas Roerich, the internationally-known American artist and explorer, had become entangled in turbulent politics in China and Afanchukuo. The department indicated that it had disbanded the Asiatic plant-hunting expeditions headed by Roerich and terminated the Governmental services of Roerich himself. Officials disclosed that informal protests against the expedition had been received from high authorities in the area in which it had been working. The case was almost unprecedented in the history ol the department, though hundreds of similar exploring groups had been sent to virtually every country in the world. Roerich's special assignment oil the Chinese expedition was to find a drought-resistant grass and cereal seeds.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 1 February 1936, Page 5
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132EXPLORER’S DISMISSAL. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 1 February 1936, Page 5
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