Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Order. That Japan had come to Indo-China to stay was plain. Shipping between Formosa and Haiphong stepped up, hotels teemed as more than 1,000 Japanese and Formosans set up businesses...
Laced as it is with mountains, this area is larger than it looks. Vienna at the western edge of the map is no farther from the Atlantic Ocean than it is from the Crimea in the eastern half of the map. The Hungarian Plain-the fringes of which are shared by Germany, Yugoslavia and Rumania is roughly as large as the northern half of France. After the Danube escapes from this plain through the Iron Gate it emerges into another plain, the northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile...
...reach Istanbul against opposition, a German Army, by any route it took, would have to fight its way through mountain passes. One set of passes leads through the mountains of Transylvania into the plain of the lower Danube, the route General von Falkenhayn took when he conquered Rumania in 1916. But the main route to Istanbul leads through Belgrade to Nish and thence through Sofia and down through the rich Bulgarian plain and the Maritsa Valley. From Nish through another pass is a route down the Vardar River to Salonika on the Aegean, a port which would serve...
Mussolini's Problem. With Hitler already in a political and military position to dominate the plain of Hungary and Stalin in possession of the Ukraine, Benito Mussolini can hardly pretend to be one of the big three dictators unless he controls at least a part of Europe's granary. Furthermore, Italy has not adequate food supplies at home and has for years depended on maize from Hungary to help feed her people...
...dictators may be friends but their deals are of a kind the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission would approve-at arm's length. Not only because of Hitler's stronger army did Mussolini have to yield dominance of the Hungarian Plain to Germany. The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable. The Pindus Mountains in Albania and northern Greece are considerably higher (they include Mt. Olympus, 9,730 ft., with Ossa and Pelion handy for climbing...