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Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
This southern arm cut off the Crimea, with its naval base at Sevastopol, from communication with the mainland. The Russians, far from giving the peninsula up-perhaps remembering that in the Crimean War 86 years ago Sevastopol resisted British and French siege for over eleven long months-rushed reinforcements by sea, prepared to make a bitter stand, as at Odessa and Leningrad...
...Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
This week the vacation ends. The famed peninsula rain, which sometimes drips 122 inches a year, washed them out. Ickes looked tired, his face grey where it was not floridly blotched. He growled to a reporter: "I haven't hrd a vacation yet." Said Jane Ickes: "All this talk of vacation is so much fluff...
Mustached, polished Major Griffin, World War I infantry captain and D.S.C. man, is the wealthy publisher of the Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula Herald and president of Monterey Peninsula Broadcasting Co. World traveler and alarmed observer of the events of the '303 in Europe, he realized that one defect in army morale was that most soldiers did not appreciate how modern wars occur, did not really understand why they might have to fight...