Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, in what was once western Poland the Führer would make room for those who wanted land in the Polish Corridor. The hundreds of thousands of Poles in the Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania...
Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...
...room No. 1037 on the south side of a massive, red-brick building in St. Paul last week charwomen were dusting and cleaning and bustling about. On the north side of the ugly old office building, in No. 1030 (separated by no more than a locked door and a corridor from 1037), more charwomen were kicking the dust and dirt around. No. 1037 had been vacant since Jan. 24 for lack of a president of the Great Northern Railway. No. 1030 had been vacant since Sept. 4 for lack of a president of Northern Pacific. This week both rooms were...
...Hitler has pretended that he wanted only Danzig, plebiscite for the Corridor, an autostrade. He still broadcast his assurances even while he had in his hands the precious agreement by which Germany and Russia were to partition their living prey...