Word: eurasian
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...will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that there are honorable and anti-militaristic Japanese as well as the sort who took the nation over-and that there have been treacherous Americans. As notably, he develops serious intentions towards a Eurasian girl, coolly counters her it-can-never-be demurrers with: "That's an insult to the Irish...
...Timesman C. L. Sulzberger, who had investigated the problem in Moscow, reported from London the first coherent account of the Sinkiang situation. He also reported that Sinkiang is the epicenter of a political earthquake which may change the power geography of Asia. For Sinkiang is the keystone of the Eurasian heartland. It has common frontiers with Russian Turkestan, Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, British-dominated Tibet, China and China's Communist area around Yenan...
...Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life out on a mess of thousand-franc notes. By then Author Leyden had gathered more "material" than he bargained...
...late Professor Nicholas John Spyk man (rhymes with Beekman) bequeathed a nightmare to U.S. readers. The nightmare was that, seen globally, North America is an island encircled by the stronger Eurasian land mass. The purpose of this little book, which is really a 61-page footnote to Professor Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics (TIME, April 20, 1942), is to wake Americans to the realization that Spykman's geopolitical nightmare is no dream...
Everlasting Concern. Says Spykman: "The situation at this time . . . makes it clear that the safety and independence of this country can be preserved only by a foreign policy that will make it impossible for the Eurasian land mass to harbor an overwhelmingly dominant power in Europe and the Far East. The United States must recognize once again, and permanently, that the power constellation in Europe and Asia is of everlasting concern to her, both in time of war and in time of peace...