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They are professor of history at the University of California and authority on Russian affairs. The Armor River. Tumbling and swirling and flowing down to the sea.

Think of what the Mississippi has meant to the development of the United States. What the Mississippi has meant to the Midwest, the Armor River has meant to Soviet Asia and Fanchuria. Today it is the boundary between them and over its swirling waters men have struggled for supremacy. Nations have fought. Cities have been signed. Today both sides of it bristle with arms.

The Russians to the north of it the Japanese to the south cover river 3000 miles long. That's as long as the distance across the United States. Think of a river navigable for 2000 miles. That's equivalent of the United States to sailing up Chase Beach Bay and continuing all the way to Kansas City.

For centuries, Russia, traditionally, has had an urge to the sea. For years, Russia has fought for safe access to the White Sea, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific. Almost landlocked, almost hemmed in, she has sought for strategic frontiers to assure access to the sea, like those in Finland and the Baltic States, like those around the Botsporus, and