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Self-Acceleration. In the far north, Marshal Govorov woke up the sector above Lake Peipus with an attack which overran Narva, which the Germans had held since Govorov drove them back from Leningrad. This action extended the active front to a reach of 800 miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged...
...Bleak Province. Probably the most conservative general would have agreed with Hitler that Germany must defend East Prussia, the bleak province which is supposed to breed the "iron bowels" of the Junkers. On the sector covering East Prussia, from Kaunas to Grodno, the Russians paused for a whole week. The natural defenses before them-swamps, lakes and dense forests-were forbidding. The man-made defenses, particularly the strategic network of railways built long ago, were equally formidable. In this treacherous country, the Tsarist armies of World War I suffered their first great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg...
Then the attack pendulum swung back to the Caen sector, where the British Second Army jumped off in a new offensive on a nine-mile front southwest of Caen. The drive punched ahead for two and a half miles, then slowed as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved five divisions to stave off a breakthrough. German headquarters said the fighting might soon reach a new high of intensity and decide the fate of the Norman front...
...second sector in Dr. Kaplan's geography lesson in the reconversion territory is Disposal of War Supplies. Best estimates now are that these will total some $60 billion at the end of the war, enough to terrify most U.S. businessmen. But Explorer Kaplan points out that only a small portion of this is of the type likely to be offered for sale to U.S. consumers; three-quarters of it will be combat ordnance. Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans. The remainder suitable for the home market amounts...
Daring Statesmanship. Having thus made familiar two dangerous-looking areas, Dr. Kaplan tackled the third sector, War Plant and Equipment. As he analyzed the problem, about half of the $15.5 billion of war plants built by the Government are large facilities in such lines as shipbuilding, aircraft, aluminum and magnesium. If ingenuity fails to convert such facilities to peacetime use, he recommends courage in boldly dismantling those which cannot economically serve the people. Probably not more than $5 billion can be readily transformed into peace factories. Since $5 billion represents only about two years of normal investment in plant expansion...