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...huge oil production-Hitler's most pressing need-and it is chiefly in the great Baku and North Caucasus fields-190,000,000 barrels a year, as against a 1940 German consumption of only 35,000,000 barrels. All but 10% of this possible prize is protected by Caucasian mountain bastions, could be strongly defended. And the fields could be fired, so that it would probably be two years before anything like full production could be restored. Moreover, Russia has needed almost all of her oil ever since she lost 15,000,000 horses by famine or slaughter (some...
...with Germany on Feb. 9, 1918. But the Soviet armies drove into the Ukraine, to its capital, Kiev (see map, p. 24). Thereupon the Germans not only drove out the Reds, but forced them to accept the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 3), which, besides depriving Russia of a Caucasian slice which went to Turkey, Russian Poland, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, Kurland, Livonia, Estonia and the Islands of the Moon Sound, provided for an independent Republic of the Ukraine...
...Aleppo, the French and British commanders met with Turkey's high command in long sessions at which they were reported to have mapped out, in minutest detail, plans for tri-power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...
While heretofore the Allies have been left to wonder where the Nazis would strike next, last week the shoe was on the other foot. French papers have been toying with the notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere...
...terror of Caucasian frost, Nor yet that brooding Hindu heat For which a loin-rag and a dish of rice Suffice until the pestilent monsoon. But, without winter, blood would...