Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concise but comprehensive survey the author shows the all-pervasive drive of the German Auschiuss on the myriad peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula. The Rome-Berlin axis, by its recent conquests, forms a solid bulwark across the center of the continent. France and Britain are isolated. But the Fascist powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian...
...Selangor, 3,160 square miles of Brit ish protectorate on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, all important problems of State are settled by a British Resident...
...great urban beauties of North America. San Francisco Bay is not only vast-48 miles long, embracing 450 square miles of roadstead-but magnificently visible, cupped by the steeply carved mountains of the coast range. San Francisco rises in clean, pale tiers of buildings on the hilly peninsula between this shining water and the Pacific Ocean...
...market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into the British-dominated markets of the Near East...
...Nazi government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum...