Asia
- Afghanistan - Habibullah Khan, King of Afghanistan (1901–1919)
- Brunei - Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Sultan of Brunei (1906–1924)
- China
- President (Republic of China) - Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1913–1915)
- Monarch (Empire of China) - Yuan Shikai, Emperor of China (1915–1916)
- Hong Kong
- Monarch - George V, King of the United Kingdom (1910–1936)
- Governor- Sir Francis Henry May (1912–1918)
- Japan
- Monarch - Taishō, Emperor of Japan (1912–1926)
- Prime Minister - Okuma Shigenobu, Prime Minister of Japan (1914–1916)
- Mongolia - Bogd Khan, Khan of Mongolia (1911–1924)
- Oman - Taimur Bin Faisal, Sultan of Oman (1913–1932)
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Famous quotes containing the word asia:
“I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)