Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take time out for a rehash of those errors would now be a waste of incalculably valuable time. The crying need is, instead, for an immediately applicable solution of the problem--one which will free England's hands for the far greater battle against democracy's foes in Asia. As long as unrest and dissension continue in India, British troops and war materials will of necessity be diverted away from the vital battlefields of that area in order to combat a nation which is our natural ally...
...Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving. On the largest collective farms, dormitories were thrown up so that workers would not lose time by going home to sleep. Around Moscow 75,000 students spent their holidays harvesting...
...Professor Demos arrived in this country from Greece, with a college education and two years of teaching in Asia Minor behind him. When he stepped off the boat with his brother, they had but $150 in their pockets...
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...
...ferocious courage of a people fired by undaunted faith in their motherland. Their Red army, battered and bleeding on the south Russian plains, was locked in history's greatest battle. Beneath Nazi bludgeoning the Red army was reeling back, back toward Stalingrad, back toward the Caspian, back toward Asia...