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Europe's 175,000 Wends (also known as Lusatian Serbs) are an ancient Slavic people who settled in Germany more than 1,000 years ago. Many of them now live on islands in the Spree River and its web of channels; they are chiefly eel fishermen and cucumber growers (a common Spree-wald salutation is: "Have a cucumber...
...convinced that Russian expansion Westward is inevitable, and that expansion, he thinks, will be prompted by a number of things: the nationalistic urge toward "more and more security and power"; the temptation to obtain world trade-lines via the Mediterranean, the Baltic and North Atlantic; the ancient Pan-Slavic tradition; the century-old Russian desire for hegemony over Poland, the Balkans and Constantinople...
Engineered by such men as Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, and Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, long experimentation has produced the method most suited to the Army's purpose. The requirements of the military for speed in teaching and the insistence upon the use of the spoken language called for a complete revision of the traditional methods of language instruction...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...
...that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that the German enemy, which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed at Lidice and Maidenek; 5) occupy itself with human honor, conscience and soul; 6) call on Russians for a new effort of creativeness and rouse them to transfer the heroism they have shown in war to achievements in peace...