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...Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
...Asia is a vast, vague question mark. There are rumors of gigantic new factories in its Far West and there are rumors of armed vigilance in its Far East. Few Americans know much about either. To Canadian Journalist Davies and U.S. Journalist Steiger, who have fellow-traveled there extensively, Siberia is far from vague. They regard it as the key to Allied victory...
Half a Continent. Soviet Asia is bounded on the west by the 2,000-mile watershed of the Ural Mountains and bends its breadth upon half the planet, to end within dory distance of Alaska. Siberia is almost half of Asia, and more than seven-eighths of the Soviet Union. To all but the Russians, and to most of them, it was for centuries as dark as Africa...
...armies. It had become a race to see who would open one first-the U.S. and Britain to aid Russia, or Japan to help Germany. From the Pacific came portents indicating that Japan, with 1,000,000 men already lined up in Manchukuo, was poised for a blow against Siberia...
...went by Clipper the long way round—across the Atlantic and up through Russia's threatened backdoor. Next winter he hopes to come out again through Turkestan and Siberia. By then the outcome of the whole war may well have been decided on the steppes—and Graebner will have played a vital part in keeping its story in TIME clear and knowing and authentic...