Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outward? The Chinese saw the Extraordinary Diet as another prelude to bold military adventure, as bold perhaps as in 1941. In Chungking there was talk that Japan would invade Siberia within 90 days. A like prediction had come from Chinese sources in 1942 at this season, when the tough Siberian mountain and steppeland is warm and dry, most suitable for campaigning. But now there were new reasons. Russia was drawing closer to her U.S. and British allies. Germany appeared to be preparing for a supreme effort against Russia in the west. If Russia was ever to be eliminated...
...with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
Ankara reported vast German concentrations along the Eastern Front, predicted unprecedented carnage. The Russians, again on the defensive after their winter drives, brought up Siberian reserves, braced themselves for the shock of yet another great German offensive. Moscow showed confidence, but no complacency. Pravda remarked soberly that although the Luftwaffe had lost 5,090 planes during the winter, still "the enemy's air fleet is very strong and a potent weapon in the hands of the German command...
...Fear. One fear is always with the Japanese Government and people: that Russia will attack them. No one in Japan has any illusions about the nation's vulnerability to bombing from Russia's Siberian bases. This fear increased late last year, when the Russians drove back the Germans and the North African campaign turned against the Axis. The Japanese think and talk of war with Russia only in terms of Russian attack; the idea that Japan might be so rash as to attack the Soviet Union is never seriously considered by the Japanese people...
...Neither a strategy based on island-to-island conquest in the South Pacific, nor one based on the remote hope of being able to mount an attack via Rus-sian Siberia, is sound. (If Russia declares war, says Dr. Hsu, Japan can easily cut the lifeline of the Trans-Siberian railway, and has consistently kept an approximate 25% preponderance of troops facing the Russians.) Therefore United Nations strategy will call for a huge armada of ships and millions of men if China cannot be used as an attack base...