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...pincers crushed the armies of the U.S.S.R., they would thereafter encounter pulp and eggshell. Only geography and a brittle British Army now bar Germany from the Middle East, Suez and Africa. In Europe's southwest corner obedient satellites (see p. 32) seemed prepared to help in the conquest of Africa, which would cut the British Empire into eastern and western halves. With Russia gone, China could do little but accept a peace dictated by the senior partner of the Axis. If the Axis spreads its dominion over the continents of Eurasia and Africa, the pincers will be ready...
...Conquest of a Province. For a generation before the war Szechwan, richest, largest, most populous province of China, lived by itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...
...Death, by veteran Script Writer Ruth Earth, done for Du Font's Cavalcade of America. A melodramatization, missing no tricks, of the U.S. Public Health Service's conquest of pellagra...
...Kerr Lee; "We Have A Future," by Norman Thomas; "Berlin Diary," by William L. Shirer; "You Can't Do Business With Hitler," by Douglas Miller; "Good Neighbors," by Herbert Herring; "My New Order," by Adolph Hitler and Raoul de Roussy de Sales; "Volcanic Isle," by Wilfred Fleischer; "Pattern of Conquest," by Joseph C. Harsh...
...uncorked a drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...