Word: archangelic
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...Roosevelt did not disclose the specific amounts promised or sent, nor the shipment routes (Archangel or Vladivostok-see map). But earlier he had told Congressional leaders that Russian armies were far from defeat; that the Russians would not sell out or make peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
This was news, and this was optimism. With Nazi troops now battering along the last hundred miles to Moscow, the Archangel railroad in the north was threatened. All but two rail lines from the south, the Black Sea area, had been cut off, and the Nazis were on their way. Again U.S. aid might be too little and too late. There remained Vladivostok-and that was a long, long way from Moscow (5,000 miles of inferior railroad and foul weather) or from wherever the Russian Army must be kept supplied and fighting. And U.S. aid thus far, in four...
...stand by while the U.S. sent goods tagged for Britain to Russia instead. Some of these goods would go to Russia across the Pacific to Vladivostok, and thence along the Trans-Siberian Railway. But for the time being most would go across the Atlantic and in by way of Archangel (see map). The Russians gave assurances that their efficient ice-breaking service would keep this life line open...
...Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east as Archangel, cut off Russia effectively from the White...
Pascal: "Now, my dear archangel...