Word: heartland
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Soviet Government's recognition of the Church has done more than restore Moscow as the capital of a religiously united Russia. It united Europe's Danubian and Balkan Slavs in a Slavic religious continent whose heartland is Rus sia, whose metropolis is Moscow...
...momentous conference of U.S., British and Soviet diplomats, they were an added argument for a "second front" in the west. But the British and Americans could point without apology to their share in the coalition war. A "second front," matching the Russian effort, would come when the Nazi heartland had been properly softened. The Allied argument was one of timing and method. In that, Adolf Hitler could take scant comfort...
Russia has withdrawn from the heartland of Central Asia. Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority. Its alomans blazon with fresh white paint as far as the high Pamirs and dark-eyed dancers of the oases tread out, to the measured beat of tambourines, new dances dedicated to "final victory...
...shillings that he would not be home by Christmas ; where he might be, he would not wager. Mark Clark had said: Naples, Rome and a liberated Italy. These, obviously, were immediate objectives. For every bridgehead must ultimately lead or contribute to the advance on the Nazi heartland, the German inner citadel...
...highest military, political and economic significance to the U.S. The Mediterranean was now an Allied lake. Militarily, the Allies were not now pacing fretfully around Festung Europa- they were on the drawbridge of Hitler's fortress. And since the fortress has no roof, the whole of the German heartland lay exposed to constant attack...