Word: persia
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...Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?from any point (including several places now unmentionable) where U.S. troops and airmen might have had anything to report overnight. His "log" might also include pertinent communications from the British, Russians or Chinese on any of the Allied land and sea fronts. Or from...
...been in the U.S. only since 1923. Son of a White Russian civil governor, he was educated at the Imperial Naval Academy, served as liaison officer between the Russians and British on the Eastern Front. During the Russian Revolution he went to work for the Near East Relief in Persia and Turkey. There he met Americans who gave him valuable letters of introduction to friends in Manhattan...
...being fought: the battle to keep Africa open as the supply crossroads of the United Nations. Rommel's dusty warriors menaced the land bridge between Africa and the Middle East. Vichy intrigue and Japanese submarines at Madagascar menaced the waterway up the African coast toward Eritrea, Suez. Persia and Russia...
...armies on the bridge are greater in numbers than in actual fighting strength. According to a report from Istanbul last week, General Wilson has some 150,000 troops in Iraq and Persia. The Fighting French and thousands of Poles reinforce the Ninth Army in Syria and Palestine. But the Poles lack equipment; the Eighth Army in Egypt has necessarily had the first call on weapons, and this priority has probably affected the other British forces in the Middle East. So has Russia's urgent need; the U.S. and British supplies pouring through Iraq and Persia to the Caspian have...
...Toward Astrakhan, Soviet terminus of the Caspian supply route from Persia (see p. 33), the Germans advanced...