Word: siberias
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...Poland. Less certain is her birth year-which is variously given anywhere from 1897 to 1899. According to Pola it is 1903. Her father, George Chalupec, is reported to have been a gypsy, a Polish fabric merchant, a wealthy Hungarian farmer who died in 1905, was shipped to Siberia for taking part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, was abandoned by his Polish wife and daughter, killed by Cossacks...
...prewar Russia it was not healthy to be seen talking to foreigners. The doctors of the Cheka-prescribed a Siberian rest cure for comrades who mingled too freely. With Siberia in mind, Moscow maidens are standoffish...
Eyes 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...
...until it is forced into becoming a passive ally, the United Nations will face terrific odds in defeating Japan. 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...
...onetime Superintendent of West Point, had last been heard of in October when he was upped to one of the Army's 20 lieutenant generals and sent on a secret assignment. His D.S.C. was the second he had won. The first had been pinned on his blouse in Siberia in 1919, not long before the Japanese Government awarded him the Imperial Order of Meiji, the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Order of the Rising...