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Russia. Marshal Joseph Stalin said: "Victory is near." The Red Army captured Kiev, the Ukraine's capital, ended the summer-&-fall fight for the Dnieper and began the winter battle for western Russia. In the Nevel sector to the north, the Red Army was within 40-odd miles of Poland; in the south, 130 miles from Poland...
...nearly a month of preparation and a full 10,000 words-his longest message ever-to propose his food policy to Congress. He had reason for the work and the words: he knew that to please one potent force in the U.S.-the farmer-he must displease another potent sector-the consumer. His characteristic ambition: to please both. His solution: more farm subsidies...
Mineichi Koga knows that he cannot commit large forces to one sector of Japan's huge defensive perimeter until he is sure that a heavier blow will not fall on another sector. He has to hold back until he is sure. He has been holding back quite a bit lately. But some day soon he will have to strike. If he does not, the rest of what Admiral Nimitz said will come explosively true...
Since the Red offensive began in the Kursk-Belgorod sector on July 12, the Russians have rolled forward...
Hitler's Perils. The battle for the Dnieper had its origins in the woods and valleys of the Belgorod-Kursk sector where, in the first fortnight of July, Hitler's vast offensive drowned in its own blood. When this defeat was coupled with the Allied moves in the Mediterranean. Hitler knew he had to shorten his Eastern front and hoard his reserves of men and guns...