Word: drang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the individual recruits were not surprises, the whole procedure-the sudden formation of a block of ice in southeastern Europe, where before there had just been chilly water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
...discussed when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov visited Berlin was still secret, but all the world knew the classic cornerstone of Russian diplomacy: that no nation but Russia should control the Black Sea straits. Joseph Stalin's choice was now a grim one. If he acquiesced in the Axis Drang nach Osten, he ran the risk of being bottled in both the Baltic and Black Seas by Germany. If he did not, he ran the risk of being attacked by 2,000,000 real soldiers through what used to be Poland...
...chief obstacle standing in the way of the Drang nach Osten is Turkey. With help from Russia the Turks could make trouble for the German Army, and with help from Russia the Turks would not be averse to doing so. Stalin's tough problem has been whether to encourage Turkey to resist the Axis, at the price of concessions from Turkey that would make it a virtual Russian protectorate, or whether to sell Turkey out, at the price of territory in the Near East and (if Turkey should resist anyway) a share of Turkish territory...
With its own private Drang Nach Osten (Drive to the East) already pushed from Ethiopia through British Somaliland, hammering at the island of Perim in the Red Sea and the port of Haifa on the Mediterranean, Italy took a running jump last week, landed at the far edge of the Middle East. Out across the sands of Arabia to the Persian Gulf it sent a squadron of heavy bombers, driving at the oil depots and refineries of the Bahrein Archipelago...
...Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...