Word: siberias
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...ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
...outside the Iranian capital of Teheran, some 700 of the Führer's subjects were packed sardine-tight, living in tents. Hundreds more had fled to the provinces and were in hiding. It was reported that the Allies would round them up, send them to India and Siberia. Also allegedly somewhere in Iran was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who engineered Arab riots in Palestine, helped Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani stage his revolt in Iraq. The British had him paged...
...President appointed W. Averell Harriman as chief of the U.S. mission to Moscow. The appointment was nothing special-the fact of the mission's getting under way was all important. Flying via Siberia, Alaska to Washington were two flying boats loaded with Soviet technicians, dignitaries, aides, prepared to set up the Washington end of aid-to-Russia...
...Peking, North China gate to Manchukuo, it was freely predicted that Japan would move against Siberia first...
Next Move? If Japan was still unready to undertake war with Russia by attacking Siberia, and wished to avoid the war with Britain and the U.S. that would follow an attack on Singapore or the Indies, her most likely next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued...