Word: russia
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...indignation" phrase to de scribe the attitude of many people towards the persecution of religion in Mexico. Religion continues to be persecuted most cruelly by the Mexican Government and a few "licensed" churches do not disprove this assertion. The official educational policy of Mexico is as atheistic as Soviet Russia's. It is a positive anti-God policy, not merely anti-Catholic...
...Germans outflanked the obstructive cuestas by slipping into the Paris Basin from the Flanders Plain, where the stony outcroppings tend to disappear. This Flanders Plain is an extension of the Baltic Plain that runs all the way from the North Sea to Russia. There Winston Churchill's great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, won his victories of Ramillies (1706) and Malplaquet (1709). There the French under the great Marshal Saxe defeated the British and the Dutch at Fontenoy in 1745. There Waterloo was fought and Napoleon finally defeated in 1815. The Flanders Plain is protected to the East...
...blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent a new war from being carried into the South German...
...river beds that run from east to west, by rivers that now flow into the North and Baltic Seas. The new river beds and the old connecting valleys make it relatively easy for soldiers to roll across the Baltic Plain in any direction. Germany's soldiers rolled against Russia in 1914 on railroad lines built especially to serve strategic purposes. On the Russian side of the border railroafls were as few as they were many in Germany. It was a situation which parallels that on the Spanish-French frontier. The situation still exists but the border has moved...
...combinations assigned to various nations. These were most recently brought up to date by the Cairo conference last year. Assigned to the U. S. are initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico has XAA through XFZ. Hungary has HAA through HAZ, including a station...