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...world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the professor proceeded to teach topsy-turvy geography: Tokyo is nearer to Minneapolis than to San Diego. Chicago is closer to Siberia than to South America...
Russian reserves, drawn from western Siberia where Marshals Voroshilov and Budenny have been training huge new armies, were thrown into the Stalingrad struggle to relieve weary Red Army fighters who had been hammered slowly back toward the Volga during torrid August and September weeks. The reserves came from training camps in Western Siberia, not from the front line in the east where a section of the Red Army guards against any Japanese attack. If Marshal Timoshenko expected Stalingrad to fall he was almost certainly withdrawing-and saving -the bulk of his veteran troops for battles to come...
When Tokyo last week told of the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (not to be confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
Obviously the time was overripe in Adolf Hitler's eyes for a Japanese blast at Siberia. More than rumor said that Japan had agreed to strike Siberia when Germany reached the Volga (see p. 36). Japan's retreats in China (see p. 38) were suspicious. Perhaps many of them were by design, to release troops northward...
Japan might well feel that the time for Siberia was not now, or for some time to come. The logic of Japan's war called not only for attacks on Siberia, but on Australia and India (see p. 26) as well. They were all great, potentially threatening flanks of the huge new empire Japan had so speedily carved for herself...