Word: siberias
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...fate of Russia appeared to depend on the U.S. keeping open the supply line to Vladivostok. If Russia capitulated or went down in defeat, Hitler would reach the borders of China; Japan, the shores of Siberia; and the Axis would be in a position to seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count...
...with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near Manchukuo, would probably fall if the Japanese moved. This left only Stalinabad, southeast of Samarkand, and another Stalinsk, a new industrial city in what might be the new Russia-Central Siberia...
...believed that the Japanese could do no more against them than they had been doing. Only if Japan chose to throw in another 20 or 30 divisions was there more than a remote possibility of Chinese defeat. And those divisions seemed earmarked for another purpose: the invasion of eastern Siberia...
...been a good friend to China in the past few years; Russian arms had helped to keep China fighting. Chinese realized last week that their own security depended on the resistance of Russian soldiers on the bloodstained field of Mos cow as well as in the windswept valley of Siberia's Amur River. If Germany "and Japan won, between them they might force any peace they wished on China...
...western prong of the pincer was the German Army closing on Moscow (see p. 24). The eastern prong so far consisted of small Japanese generals sipping green tea, studying their detailed plans for attacking Siberia. But now that a Japanese general was premier at last (see col. 2), it seemed inevitable that Japan would attack Siberia...