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Kohn's travels sent him zigzagging across Europe as he had covered the map of Asia. Leaving Vladivostok in 1920, he returned for a few months to his home in Prague, a free man for the first time in five years. Then he went to Paris and finally London, where for four years he had access to the historical wealth of the British Museum. In 1925 he traveled to Palestine, where he continued first hand his study of the history and politics of the Near and Middle East. From Palestine he came in 1931 to the United States and since...
...debate opened last month when a geography professor named George T. Renner, of Columbia University's Teachers College, published in Collier's a map of a post-war world drawn to "democratic specifications" (TIME, June 15). A disciple of the small but respectable school of American geopoliticos which includes Yale's Professor Nicholas John Spykman (America's Strategy in World Politics- TIME, April 20), Professor Renner believes that scholars, not "amateurs," are best able to write the peace...
Rushing in where more eminent scholars had feared to tread, Renner undertook to translate the Atlantic Charter and other "noble statements" by amateurs (i.e., statesmen and political thinkers)-into a map. Amateurs were astounded at the result. His geopolitical Europe was divided into nine big nations, with Axis Germany and Italy left apparently as strong as the victorious United Nations themselves...
...studied geographical theory and principles (as most Americans have not) most lines on a map may look roughly alike. A geographer, however, knows that to shift a line a few miles or to change its course minutely may mean the difference between a fair and an unfair peace, between peace and future war. My map of Europe would meet all the valid arguments advanced by the Axis countries, and thereby deprive them of propaganda weapons, without yielding them anything which would render them materially stronger than they were...
There are many opportunities for such attacks (see map). A major drive in the center might take Moscow and, sweeping on, outflank the entire southern front. A major drive in the south may strike directly at the Caucasus or swing north to outflank the central front. A drive in the far north might cut the lines of Allied aid from Murmansk and Archangel. A major drive through or around Turkey may cut off the Russian back door through Persia or swing south to attack Suez...