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...equipment flowing into the area has enabled the British to equip at least three divisions previously lying idle in Palestine and Egypt. These, added to the forces in the Western Desert and Syria, made the armies too big for one command...
...most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable words...
...field army in Iceland is headed by cob-nosed, soft-spoken Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division. His force, complete from infantry to ordnance units, is equipped with everything from Garand semi-automatic rifles to fighter planes, telephone poles to cement mixers. Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms. Each soldier also has a pair of skis and snowshoes...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops are clinging fiercely to the western and southern approaches to Moscow, the High Command reported today, but the Germans have created such a peril that all able-bodied citizens in the Smolensk district west of the capital were called out to fight...
Broadcasting on a two-nation hookup, Mitch began by assuming that Russia will be defeated, that Germany, with Russia's resources at her command, will soon be in position to menace Canada and the U.S. Thus Canada and the U.S. must necessarily work more closely together. Under the circumstances, he went on, leaders of defense strikes in the U.S. and Canada "should be listed, classified, condemned and divorced from society...