Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no reason to believe that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was already tottering. It was simply rickety. It would not stand up to a real good earthquake...
...SOVIET ASIA-Raymond Arthur Davies & Andrew J. Steiger- Dial...
...Soviet Asia is a vast, vague question mark. There are rumors of gigantic new factories in its Far West and there are rumors of armed vigilance in its Far East. Few Americans know much about either. To Canadian Journalist Davies and U.S. Journalist Steiger, who have fellow-traveled there extensively, Siberia is far from vague. They regard it as the key to Allied victory...
Half a Continent. Soviet Asia is bounded on the west by the 2,000-mile watershed of the Ural Mountains and bends its breadth upon half the planet, to end within dory distance of Alaska. Siberia is almost half of Asia, and more than seven-eighths of the Soviet Union. To all but the Russians, and to most of them, it was for centuries as dark as Africa...
...strength of Soviet Asia lies in its mineral resources, its rich agricultural production, its factories and its geographic position. Lying close to nine countries on three continents, it enters into "the military-strategic aspect of almost every front, excepting the Libyan and the Atlantic." Only at its extreme frontiers is Siberia really vulnerable...