Word: siberias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening in, and with loudspeakers blaring in the streets and squares of every German city, town and village, Adolf Hitler spoke with his breath-taking simplicity: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in Prosperity! I am not in the fortunate position of the Soviet Jews. Nevertheless, the problems of Germany must be solved! There is no such thing as saying it cannot be done. It can be done-because it must...
...that the land belongs almost entirely to small owners, the petit proprietaire of whom we hear so much. But unfortunately if the Communists get the command in France as they have done in Russia the petit pro-prietaire will merely become the hated kulak. And as there is no Siberia to which to send him he is likely to have a worse time than the Russian kulak...
Well above the Arctic Circle, Wrangel Island lies north of the northeastern tip of Siberia. In 1924 the Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...ballerinas who fetch the most applause are Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and Irina Baronova, all in their teens. Toumanova, a dark-skinned Caucasian, was born on a train in Siberia as her parents were attempting to escape from the Revolution. At 7, in Paris, she was praised by Pavlova who gave her a bouquet; Toumanova still cherishes its withered leaves and dried-up blossoms...
Supine America needs to be reminded that it is only twenty miles across the Bering Straits from Red Siberia to Alaska. The young men of the country who some day will be called upon to defend the haven of liberty against the new Attila are asking little enough from an apparently ungrateful nation. Their demands must be met before it is too late...