Word: siberians
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...cannot graft them on our system any more than you can graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They raised lusty cheers for the Prime Minister and returned the mellow words with which he left them: "God bless...
...troops, most of them from the Pacific Coast, who formed the U. S. contingent of Allied Intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. From this halfway point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took a different view, supported the White Russian armies openly, laid down a barrage of vilification against...
...example to show the way that the nations are avoiding war. Kaltenborn points to the Siberian peninsula "In this Spanish situation, there have been 16 different incidents that might have led to war. Germany isn't going to go out and tackle England, Russia and France without a major Europeanally. She isn't ready for war economically or politically. Of course, a Fascist victory in Spain will be a great boost for Fascism all over the world, and so the outcome in Spain will be a determining factor in the speed of liberal movements everywhere...
...intuitive Adolf Hitler had in this deal outsmarted the Imperial Government of the Son of Heaven. Japan already has bitten off in China all she can effectively chew, and only last week the Soviet Union finally completed their duplicate "behind the mountains'' strategic railway paralleling the Trans-Siberian and permitting Russia more effectively than ever before to fight Japan...
...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...