Word: eurasian
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Europe and Asia, on the other hand, were inverted bowls, sloping off from the central Alps and Himalayas. In Gilpin's view these geographical facts doomed the two continents to division, jealousy, rivalry and constant warfare. Russia, however, was the Eurasian exception: in topography and resources it was more like the U.S. Gilpin thought the U.S. and Russia would follow the same pattern of growth -the U.S. moving westward to the Pacific, Russia eastward to the Pacific...
Terror In Hong Kong. Men taken prisoner in Hong Kong reported that the invaders raped Chinese, Eurasian and white women, including three British nurses. Afterward the Japs bayoneted and burned the nurses. A group of 30 Maryknoll missionary priests was tied up, marched with British and Canadian soldiers to an execution ground. The soldiers were led around a corner: the priests could hear their screams as they were bayoneted to death. The priests were spared, but were thrown into a garage and left there for three days, still tied and without food or water...
Between Germany and domination of the great Eurasian land mass, the Red army still stood. But the valiant Russians were yielding step by step the greater part of their European soil. They were falling back ever closer to Asia. Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the awful question: What if Russia fell? Whatever the probabilities, that dire possibility had to be faced. How would Russia's defeat tip the scales toward the Axis? How many men, how much oil, how many planes, what raw materials would be left to fight the Battle of the World...
...army keeping the Germans engaged on the eastern front, Hitler would be free to detach a major part of his troops for use elsewhere. The problems of a second front in Europe would be enormously enlarged, for there would be no first front. German control of the Eurasian land mass would outflank Africa, surround China, leave Britain and the Americas islands in the west facing a terrible struggle to rebuild the world...
...years ago used to be in the Prussian Ministry of Justice gave a wry outline of the famous Haushofer geopolitics and observed that Haushofer's most cherished dream-of a Russian-German bloc dominating the Eurasian land mass-had failed; that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support...