Word: eurasia
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...Freeman, made his fortune in export trade with Nationalist China and was registered as a representative for the Kuomintang government. Grand Strategy articles in the magazine call for an active war against Communist China through arming Chiang. Thus, while America keeps her troops at home, we can "free Eurasia without expending a single American soldier in battle." Europe is written off as a "sector of containment" in this scheme, presumably just a sponge for Russian armies...
Movius is an outstanding American authority on the Old Stone Age in Eurasia and Africa. Last year he received the Viking Medal for his research in the Far East and his 1948 excavations in France...
...Super. In Orwell's 1984, Britain is no longer Britain. It is merely part of the superstate Oceania (the British Isles and Atlantic Islands, North and South America, southern Africa, Australasia). From 1960 on, Oceania has been ceaselessly at war, sometimes as ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...
Ideologically, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia have no quarrel; they are alike as three blackjacks. But war has turned out to be the simplest way of convincing the masses that their countries and their lives are in a state of emergency, which can only be met if all thought, as well as all government, is subject to absolute dictatorship. Hence the three great slogans that Oceania's wretched citizens read and hear every hour of their lives...
...Science magazine, Dr. Alber Wolfson of Northwestern University advances his explanation: that they are led astray by the earth's fickle geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans and the land...