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...several weeks the Russians had been building formidable defenses on Moscow's flanks at Kalinin and Tula. The German drive was designed to circumvent, and later destroy, those two key areas of defense. One German column drove between Moscow and Kalinin. This week it reached a point 30 miles from the capital. Another column skirted Tula to the south and then swung north across the Oka River...
...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
Thus the prelates impartially called Naziism and atheistic Communism "the two greatest evils of today, which would destroy all spiritual values," but made a distinction between the political systems and the peoples of both Germany and Russia that tacitly permits Catholics to back U.S. aid to Russia. A reference to "enjoying, as we do, a well-ordered liberty in a free country" implied their belief that the Government's policies are being formed by due democratic process. And by studiously omitting from the statement everything that might conflict with these policies (such as the Hoover food plan for Occupied...
...campaign from the Axis viewpoint, although Berlin has so far refused to admit that it is anything more than a local scrap. The Italians, however, have been much franker about the matter in confessing that the future of Italy depends upon the outcome in Africa. Strategically based planes could destroy Italian cities by night bombing expeditions and with the aid of the British navy they can send the Italian fleet off to Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing Petain to dismiss Weygand...
...Goldston predicted as an aftermath to war expansion a revolutionary dictatorship by the workers, a coup by the ruling classes, or a continuation of expansion through imperialism with limited freedom. Boyden claimed that, although civil liberties might be curtailed by the war a victory by the fascist powers would destroy them completely...