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...theater: Basra, the river port which U.S. and British engineers have turned into a busy reception point for war shipments through the Persian Gulf. At the military worst, it would be to Basra that the Tenth Army would retire, for with Basra would go the Persian Gulf, and its access to South Africa, the South Atlantic, the U.S. and Britain. The battle for the bridge would first be a battle for overland rail and highway routes from Basra through Bagdad to Persia, the Caspian and Russia; then, at the blackest last, for the city itself. At such a juncture...
...blues singers of Arkansas, Georgia, etc. would be forced to constitute the Balkan Union of N.A. This state should not be allowed to control the Mississippi delta, nor have access to the Atlantic seaboard. For their unimportant trade, Pensacola, to be renamed Salonika, will do as their only port...
When post-war planners, mindful of Item 4 of the Atlantic Charter, try to assure to all states the "access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world," they may have to bear in mind that the U.S. in the not too distant future may no longer export but import...
Most of the staff have taken graduate work and Harvard hydrographers co-operate with the bureau from time to time. The main reason for the government service's location near the University is to make possible ready access to the Harvard Fisheries Library, which Herrington rates "best in this part of the country...
...Stalingrad front Bock was at a disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty...