Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week not enough was known of the nature of the fighting or of the strategies employed to tell where the Wehrmacht's disaster might lead. The outer world did not see the battles; it saw only the permitted accounts of the battles. Moscow correspondents could not visit the fronts. Where the Red Army had to fight for its gains, and where it had only to march in after the retreating Germans, the dispatches did not clearly say. If the battles were bitter, neither Moscow nor Berlin said much about them. What might well be the most significant retreat...
...trapping mechanisms is that of the Dionaea (Venus's-flytrap). Indigenous to North and South Carolina, the Dionaea is a rosette of leaves, three to six inches across, rising from a rootstock more or less horizontally. The upper part of the leaf consists of two dished lobes whose outer margins have a row of coarse teeth. The plant appears to have been discovered by Colonial Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina...
Japan pursues two distinct policies in the two zones. Capital investment, colonization, education and a centrifugal imperialism are evident in the inner zone. Emigration to the outer zone is discouraged, perhaps even forbidden; those who go there are sent on specific missions. No capital is invested in the outer zone. The cream is simply skimmed by persuasion or force. Throughout the outer zone an inextricable web of legal ownership is being developed, while on the surface autonomy is apparently maintained-as with the Vargas regime in the Philippines, the Luang Pitul Songgram government in Thailand, the surviving Decoux governorship...
There is an obvious point to this dichotomy. Japan may not retain full sovereignty in the outer zone after the war. But she clearly intends to remain dominant economically. Japan is apparently jockeying to be in a position, after Hitler's fall, to bargain for a negotiated peace in which the war-weary Allies would lose no face, Japan would lose no vital advantages. If she achieved such a stalemate, Japan would have...
...main arteries of their principal supply system and most of the industrially rich Donets basin. Fortnight ago, the Red Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum hope was to hold a bulge protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would...