Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop the Nazis and last year urged that Britain seek an alliance with Soviet Russia. Most of the dangers he has warned against have come to pass, and he has thus gained the reputation of a correct Cassandra...
...modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks and trucks and fly airplanes. The Republic now has an Army estimated at 50.000 men and Soviet Russia has seen to it that the People's Government does not lack planes for all emergencies...
Almost all accounts of Outer Mongolia for the last 15 years have originated in Russia. A few shepherds, it is said, now follow their flocks on bicycles. Ulan Bator Khoto, the capital, has three-story buildings, a theatre and traffic lights, although camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with...
...skirmishing is authenticated: Outer Mongolia is a backdoor, not only to China, but to Russian Siberia. If and when the Japanese and Russians decide to fight for keeps, the barren Mongolian plateau will see its biggest battles since the days of Ghengis Khan. In preparation for that day, Russia has declared a virtual protectorate over the Mongol Peoples' Republic, raised a Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan's crack troops...
Thirty years ago in Russia, not far from Kovno, a Jewish peasant woman awaited her seventh baby. When her time came, she had mild labor pains, but nothing happened. Months later a doctor suggested an operation. She refused. Years passed, the family emigrated to the U. S., settled in Detroit...