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...lank, dour fellow, with a face like a withered apricot, a sandy-grey pompadour, and a thundering disdain for anything Republican, Representative Ford is one of the shortest-tempered men in the House. He has been a 1,000% New Dealer ever since he came to Congress in 1933, after ten years of editing the literary page of the anti-New Deal Los Angeles Times...
Even without German infiltration, Iran had a poor chance of keeping her neutrality. The most strategic cross-corridor of Asia, Iran's mountains and deserts not only lie across the land route from Asia Minor to India but are the shortest road by which Britain could send supplies and men to the Russian Army - a road that has become vital since Hitler reached Russia's Black Sea ports...
...Japan. Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho warned that an attack on any other American country might lead to Mexico's entry into the war. The Hemisphere was apparently falling into line behind U.S. policy. The U.S. and the Japanese were now face to face at the shortest distance yet. Each had encircled the other in the South Pacific (see p. 20). The next major move on either side would mean...
Well aware are the Turks that their country offers Hitler the best road to Suez, the shortest land route to Russia's Transcaucasian oil fields (and to Iran, Afghanistan, India, beyond). Since the Balkan campaign, Nazi pressure on Turkey has increased notch by notch, with troop concentrations in Bulgaria, fortification of islands in the Aegean off the Turkish coast, increasing activity of Nazi agents behind Turkey's back (particularly in Iran). Economic pressure, too, has steadily risen since the German-Turkish trade pact was signed in June...
...This policy means, in practical application, that such aid must reach its destination in the shortest of time and in maximum quantity. So ways must be found to do this." So said Secretary Cordell Hull to the American Society of International...