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Objective. All the Russian pronouncements indicate that the Red objective is now to destroy the enemy army. Said the Army's Red Star: "Our main task is to prevent the enemy from escaping and to destroy their armed forces. When these are smashed, the fortresses will fall by themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Maiden's Soldier | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...American) were from artillery fire. In World War II it uses new, time-fire shells far more accurate than shrapnel and six times as destructive against personnel as regular shells which explode on the ground. It masses fire at speeds inconceivable 25 years ago. In seconds it can destroy targets that once took minutes, sometimes hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARTILLERY: Slide-Rule Boys | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Four months ago certain U.S. and British officials met in deepest secrecy to discuss one prime necessity for any invasion of the continent-invasion currency. Since retreating armies usually destroy currency, to disrupt the civilian economy and hinder occupying forces, the officials knew that Allied invasion forces must bring their own currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Second Sicilian Invasion | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Mike Conner, campaigning this year, fired both barrels at the New Deal. Sample: "There is now being waged in this country an internal political, economic and social revolution which would change the form of our government to an absolute totalitarian state of communism or national socialism. They would destroy individual enterprise, regiment and socialize the people, nullify the Constitution and destroy the states. . . . For my part I will fight for States' rights as long as I breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on Mississippi | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...There are powerful groups who hope to take advantage of the President's concentration on the war effort to destroy everything he has accomplished on the domestic front. . . . Inevitably [they will] be exposed to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Message to the Faithful | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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