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...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...
...Conolly, tugging at his green fatigue cap: "We simply blasted the Japs to hell out of there and up into the trees." But it was not as simple as that. The Japs, estimated variously at 10,000 to 20,000, had three times as great an area (225 sq. mi.) as on Saipan into which to withdraw, to fight like cornered beasts in ravines and caves until destroyed to the last...
...Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain. It worked...
...their craggy, flounder-shaped island (39,709 sq. mi., about the size of Kentucky), 120,000-odd hardy Icelanders trade in sheepskins, cod and herring, cod-liver oil, furs, some cryolite (an aluminum ore). Proud, self-sufficient people, they have a balanced budget and compulsory education. They have never had an army or navy. They have no beggars, not even a jail for Icelanders...
...marble finger pointing north, the pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...