Word: turkestan
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...handle U.S. supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water...
...among the defenders was an Austrian infantry officer, Hans Kohn, who three decades later would be teaching government at the Harvard University Summer School. Though the Russians were turned back, he and his company were captured and were sent as prisoners of war to a summer Cossack camp in Turkestan...
...went by Clipper the long way round—across the Atlantic and up through Russia's threatened backdoor. Next winter he hopes to come out again through Turkestan and Siberia. By then the outcome of the whole war may well have been decided on the steppes—and Graebner will have played a vital part in keeping its story in TIME clear and knowing and authentic...
...vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will, and one of Germany's elastic frontiers may soon be Chinese Turkestan...
...following letter, from a Polish noblewoman deported by the Russians to Turkestan, was received by a friend in the U.S. By request TIME omits the names of both sender and recipient...