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Word: britansky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...newspaper supply ran even shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English Channel appeared as "Angliski Canal." Russians, accustomed to the French "La Manche,"asked: "When did the English build the canal between themselves and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Summer Warmth | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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