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...Marxist" is the word that divides the world. In the lands drained by the Sava, the Bug, the Moskva, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga, the Yenisei and the Amur, a man who wishes to express approval-of a painting, a factory production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist...
...World Island in turn can be dominated by the vast, mostly Russian region between the Elbe and Amur - the "Heart land" which the Germans hoped to conquer...
...Jewish or Gentile. Nor were inquiring foreign Jews welcome visitors. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union has intermittently encouraged its own citizens to settle there. Between 1928 and 1933, 19,000 of them did so; the cold winds blew 12,000 of them back. After 1931, when the Japanese across the Amur River in Manchuria were considered a threat to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Soviet Government sold land and the necessary farming equipment to Jewish settlers in Birobidjan for a less-than-cost fee of $200. But by 1939 the total population of Birobidjan, including earlier, non-Jewish settlers, had reached...
...Anything can happen if only peace exists - it will be possible to ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
...Soviet attack was many-pronged. From Manchouli on the west, armored spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...