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This went over big with the crowd and Willkie again walked from a meeting amidst resounding applause. Here, as elsewhere, he seemed to have convinced his auditors that he was a good Republican Party man and a logical foe for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Victories. Bryansk and Novorossiisk were only two of a thousand victories, large and small, scored during the past week. From Velikie Luki southward, nine Red Army groups totaling perhaps 3,000,000 men were surging forward, crushing enemy "hedgehogs," sending the foe reeling back. Last week these armies...
...remarkably short time Tartu: 1) locates key friends and key foes, 2) gets the job at the gas works, 3) does a broken-field run through the intricate perils which arise from the fact that he is suspected by friend & foe alike, 4) completes his explosive assignment in the hotfooted course of one of those thrilling, dreamlike chases in which pursuers stick out their chins for the hero, great iron doors delay their closing just long enough for him to skin through, and a car and plane synchronize a getaway as happy, and unlikely, as a chain letter that really...
Once again the red cannon rolled. They boomed for countless men grey from the foe. In Berlin Nazi spokesmen babbled of "evading actions" and "elastic defense." But the grim face of the war map uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin...
...British nor the U.S. Government has yet done so; that such a blueprint must be the product of joint decisions; that a premature discussion of controversial issues might unfavorably affect the unity and the intensity of the efforts necessary to achieve the main goal: victory over the common foe...