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...from Missouri had wanted to be shown. Wendell Willkie waded into Missouri last week and gave them a sample of showmanship, sagacity and spunk. When he left he had: 1) laid down a well-hewn platform for 1944, which he could develop later, plank by plank, in further speeches; 2) proved to all other G.O.P. candidates that he is still the man they have to beat...
More interested than any other power was the Soviet Union. "We do not mind," said a Soviet diplomat to a Chinese diplomat a decade ago, "if you Chinese develop Turkestan. But if you permit Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves." The Soviet Union suspected Japanese designs on Soviet Central Asia itself. Also, in Russia's mind there lingered the ancient Czarist fear of British influence working out from India. To the Russians, it seemed that the British Consulate at Kashgar might be almost as dangerous as the reported Japanese advisers of Ma Chung...
...Soviet Union this event began a phase of foreign policy that continues to this day: protection of Soviet frontiers by the penetration and occupation of border areas. That Russia was able to penetrate and later develop her interest in a region so important, so vast, with so little knowledge of the move reaching the outside world, seems unbelievable in the 20th Century. But it happened...
Senior Animal Husbandryman Black of the U.S. Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
...Army had leapfrogged by sea up the Adriatic to Termoli. The amphibious landing in their rear had caught the Germans by surprise, so completely that a major had been captured in bed. The enemy's next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...