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Word: tundras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable for 1,825 miles, that flows into the Arctic Ocean. Said the Herald Tribune: "Such a treaty would be the logical and inevitable culmination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Ready for Action | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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