Word: hinterlands
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...Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...
...Christof von Imhorn, war correspondent in Normandy: "Ever since the Allies landed in Normandy our hinterland has been under a perpetual bombardment of an intensity never before matched. No concentrations could be built up within striking distance of the front. By day our forces go to earth; by night they move...
...Africa's sure-handed best. Between jobs of surgery, one day in 1922, he stopped before a statue of Empire Builder Cecil John Rhodes in Rhodesia's capital of Salisbury, noted reflectively the marble finger pointing north, the pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...
...Stephanos Saraphis, ex-colonel in the Greek Army, led a guerrilla band liquidated last year by the jealous EAM. As an example to other rivals, EAM paraded Saraphis in chains through the Greek hinterland. Then, by some yet unexplained persuasion, Saraphis sold himself as a general to the Leftists. Now he commands, with distinction, a big guerrilla force eyried in the Pindus...
...belt against Axis penetrations came into being." Because of this defeat the Argentinian "neutrality policy was declared . . . in order to show that Argentina could get along, alone and well, in spite of Washington." The Government's "international position . . . is supported by great numbers of Argentinians, especially in the hinterland. There is danger that the Argentinian generals will go to any extent in planning revolts [in neighboring countries...