Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea. From there the goods will be shipped on to Alma Ata by rail...
London heard that, if Stalingrad fell, Hitler intended to stabilize the Russian front behind strong fortifications (except perhaps for a push toward the Baku oilfields along the Caspian shore rather than through the freezing Caucasian passes). Such stability would allow Hitler to turn perhaps 70 of his 215 Russian divisions into the Middle East, reinforce his western front, and return skilled workers to the factories from the army. A push toward Suez and the Indian Ocean would pull the United Nations' attention away from the Continent and, if successful, would be a disaster doubtless prolonging the war for years...
...halt the Germans, nor rob them of their summer gains. (After one bitter winter in Russia the German armies came back to strike at Stalingrad and the Caucasus.) The snows which soon will block the high Caucasian passes will not block the low roads along the Black and Caspian Seas to Batum, Baku and the Middle East. Only the Red Armies in the Caucasus-so far unable to block the approaches, and soon likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges, skirting the Russian strong...
...Caspian, into which the Volga empties, is a salt sea 83 ft. below sea level...
...Toward Astrakhan, Soviet terminus of the Caspian supply route from Persia (see p. 33), the Germans advanced...