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...fate of Russia appeared to depend on the U.S. keeping open the supply line to Vladivostok. If Russia capitulated or went down in defeat, Hitler would reach the borders of China; Japan, the shores of Siberia; and the Axis would be in a position to seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count...
...Though prairie schooners no longer cross that formidable State, it is still for many miles as empty and lonely as the sea, and as barren of telephone poles. The man at the Indian agency was receiving a kind of shore-to-ship communication on which 5,000 ranch families depend...
Chief among these are the goalie Doug Thompson and center half Adam Foster. Thompson, a lanky, agile ball handler, gained his experience guarding the Exeter nets last year. Foster, who with three tallies stands as highest scorer of the moment, is a big, cool-headed player whom Polly can depend on to keep the team settled down...
...keep church membership growing. With Protestants outnumbering Catholics in rural areas by nearly five to one (the national ratio is less than two to one), falling urban birthrates (ten adults now rear only seven children) threaten to make Catholicism relatively less important in the next generation. The cities depend for survival on immigration from the countryside or overseas. In 1941 urban Catholic churches are not drawing much new strength from either source...
...Territorial changes should depend on "the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...