Word: southeasterners
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...hairy, light-skinned people that are believed to have followed the pigmies in the second mass migration onto Australia, have left the strongest traces today in the southeastern and western coast. The third, dark-skinned group has left strongest traces in the north coastal region...
...times were not peaceful and neither Anthony Eden nor his Greek hosts were in a very poetical frame of mind. Adolf Hitler's great southeastern push had already shoved some 150,000 Nazi troops and 1,700 bombers down through Bulgaria to the very edges of Greece and Turkey, only 60 miles from Salonika and only 100 miles from the Dardanelles. Greece and Turkey had rushed troops to their Bulgarian borders (Greece an estimated force of 90,000). Anthony Eden had flown from Turkey to Greece to learn, among other things, whether that heroic nation would defy the oncoming...
...even the strongest assurances of Greek resolution could scarcely have been more than a partial relief to Anthony Eden's-and Britain's-Balkan anxiety. For last week another potential bar to Adolf Hitler's southeastern drive-Yugoslavia-seemed likely to prove just about as flimsy as Bulgaria proved a fortnight...
...long awaited Armageddon in southeastern Europe approached so fast last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous...
...great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest of Central Japan, Hirohito prayed before Japan's conquest of Southeastern Asia, which Japan and her enemies alike agree must be this year or never...