Word: lebensraum
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...Lebensraum. In New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Eugene Lavigne, tired of house hunting, got a welcome letter from her soldier husband in Germany: "Come on over and bring the kids. I have a five-room house, two maids and a St. Bernard...
Land v. Sea. Some nations, declared Haushofer, were "static"-old, tired, with declining birthrates, content to hold on to what they had; others were "dynamic"-aggressive, young, with increasing birthrates, in need of more Lebensraum. A state was a living organism, quite justified in seizing what it needed to survive. For a dynamic nation like Germany, conquest was a natural biological function...
...Lebensraum. In Cricklade, Wilts., England, top priority for a larger house was awarded to Mrs. Sidney Giles, who had borne two sets of twins in eleven months...
Potsdam recognized the new Lebensraum. Yalta had given a large slice of Poland (see map) to U.S.S.R.; Potsdam made the Germans foot the bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least...
Hardly had Prime Minister Winston Churchill zoomed back from Moscow to announce that the question of Poland and the Balkans would vex Anglo-Russian relations no more, than those relations suffered a new wrench.* This time it came in Iran-traditionally a prospective Russian Lebensraum, traditionally a very tender spot with Britons. For Iran lies like a massive wedge between British India and British-controlled Iraq. It is also the source of much of Britain's Near Eastern...