Word: eurasian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Terror In Hong Kong. Men taken prisoner in Hong Kong reported that the invaders raped Chinese, Eurasian and white women, including three British nurses. Afterward the Japs bayoneted and burned the nurses. A group of 30 Maryknoll missionary priests was tied up, marched with British and Canadian soldiers to an execution ground. The soldiers were led around a corner: the priests could hear their screams as they were bayoneted to death. The priests were spared, but were thrown into a garage and left there for three days, still tied and without food or water...
Between Germany and domination of the great Eurasian land mass, the Red army still stood. But the valiant Russians were yielding step by step the greater part of their European soil. They were falling back ever closer to Asia. Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the awful question: What if Russia fell? Whatever the probabilities, that dire possibility had to be faced. How would Russia's defeat tip the scales toward the Axis? How many men, how much oil, how many planes, what raw materials would be left to fight the Battle of the World...
...years ago used to be in the Prussian Ministry of Justice gave a wry outline of the famous Haushofer geopolitics and observed that Haushofer's most cherished dream-of a Russian-German bloc dominating the Eurasian land mass-had failed; that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support...
...Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering Strait (see cut}. "The Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power to destroy not merely itself but all other parts of the world. ... As a tremendous bomb the Eurasian Triangle may be divided into a European fuse or detonator...