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...ambition attained, Raffles turned homewards. Of the five children his wife had borne him in these years, only one had survived the scourges of malaria and dysentery. Worn out and sick, he chartered a ship, loaded it with the products of some 20 years' research in the East-a priceless harvest of botanical and zoological specimens, cartological and climatic studies, thousands of pages of native histories and racial researches. One day out, the ship took fire and sank, a total loss...
...might be farther east-a new Anglo-American front in the Caucasus to keep the Baku oilfields out of German hands...
...Corriere della Sera, leading newsorgan of Italy's Pittsburgh (Milan): "This is the West which retreats in the face of the union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...
EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard-Smith & Haas...