Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What form might Germany's hibernal campaign take? Three routes were open: via Spain, via Italy, via the Balkans and Asia Minor. It appeared last week as though each route were primed; on the basis of past performance, the many-headed Nazi machine would probably use all three...
...Turkey, which, holding the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, has the most strategic position of all. The Turk is a good soldier but the Turkish Army has outdated equipment. In Europe Turkey is only a second-rate adversary although if she were forced to retire to the mountains of Asia Minor she might become more difficult to deal with...
...Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard her northern frontier while she conquers Greater East Asia. Comrades Stalin & Molotov said nothing. Well they know that, while Russia's interests lie with a victory of the London-Washington Axis, the Berlin-Tokyo Axis has the U. S. S. R. also encircled...
...Foreign Minister Molotov prepared to confer with Germany's Ribbentrop, Berlin let it be known that in the new world Germany hopes to create, Russia would have her sphere of influence. This sphere would lie between German Europe and Japanese East Asia, but its exact boundaries were not marked. Russia does and must always fear German expansion eastward more than anything else, and it was doubtful last week if anything Joachim von Ribbentrop could say or sign would reassure Comrade Stalin on that point. Best bet was that Russia would continue to play ball with the Axis against Great...
...These battles . . . are strategically one great battle. . . . For if [Germany, Italy and Japan] are to become the undisputed masters of Europe, Asia and Africa, they must be masters of the seas. . . . At the present time we control the Panama passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Britain controls the other passage. While this control remains, the German, Italian and Japanese Navies are divided: the passages through which they must pass in order to concentrate their forces for a decisive blow are plugged in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore. . . . The grand objective of the Axis...