Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RUSSIA AND JAPAN-Maurice Hindus -Doubleday, Doran...
...advocating all possible guerrilla tactics. So did Communist members of the Congress. There was no doubt that India's Moslems would fight. But it seemed clear that Gandhi was a good deal closer than C. R. or Nehru to the mind of most of India's Hindus...
...thriving city of 500,000, known as the "Chicago of Siberia." Siberian iron and steel production (chief centers: Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk and Stalinsk) is estimated to be already as large as Japan's, and new mills are going up in scores of localities. According to Maurice Hindus (TIME, April 27), one of the few men outside the Soviet Union who was right about Russia's western front, "Komsomolsk . . . the steel city in the Far East . . . is a roaring ammunition plant and one of the mighty military fortresses...
...recent years, the Russians have begun to extract oil from Cambrian rock, imbedded in thousands of square miles of Siberia. They also have regular oil wells in the Urals and east of the Volga. From these sources, Russia, according to Hindus, got 5,500,000 tons of oil in 1938-more than Germany is getting from all its synthetic plants...
Whether Japan or Russia would attack first and when the blow would come was anybody's guess. But one man made a guess last week that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope...