Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no hesitation in saying that this process of bombing the military industries and communications of Germany . . . affords one, at least, of the surest, if not the shortest, of all the roads to victory. Even if the Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea, or indeed, upon the Caspian; even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home...
...fields of Emba in the Kazak Republic, which in 1916 were supposed to be exhausted, new deposits have been tapped, production is growing rapidly and a long pipe line from the centre of the fields to the Caspian is nearing completion. In Turkestan still richer fields are being exploited...
...Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq 5,400,000 more had, whether they knew it or not, an acute interest in these questions-and many of them knew it, 'for hundreds of thousands were under arms and being called to arms. From the Adriatic to the Caspian the little nations of eastern Europe and western Asia trembled and prepared for the worst-not knowing what the worst might...