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...this year's fighting. Baku, would yield some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...
Above Leningrad the Luftwaffe stepped up its attacks on Murmansk. Object: to close that port of entry for war goods from Britain and the U.S. This effort, too, was an obvious preparation for the summer offensive. The fact that it occurred at the northern terminus of the vast front, 2,000 miles from Sevastopol, did not turn wise eyes from the south. For the immutable, basic fact of Hitler's war remained. He must have oil, and the two points where he showed his greatest strength last weekevastopol and Kharkov—are on the road...
Germany has closed the Mediterranean to regular convoys, is driving at the Suez terminus through Libya. Its spring threats of action in the Caucasus and through Turkey are also threats to the Indian Ocean and its seaways. The Japanese have narrowed the Axis pincers from the east. If the Axis finally shuts the pincers and controls the Indian Ocean, China's hopes of supplies through Russia and isolated India will vanish; the only remaining feasible routes from the U.S. to the Middle and Near East will be lost. Russia would have to fall back on uncertain, insufficient Arctic routes...
...American Volunteer Group in Burma and China did little loafing. At Rangoon, on the ocean entry to the Burma Road, at Kunming, on its inner terminus, at many an airdrome between, A.V.G.'s100-odd U.S. pilots brightened last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like...