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...pledged to fight at Britain's side for the winning of this war. India is a vital sector in that war. If our pledge is not to lead to our ultimate destruction, it becomes our obligation to make sure that every obstacle in the way of final victory is cleared away. Such an obstacle is the apparent inability of the British and Indians to come to terms soon enough to prevent disaster for everyone concerned...
Battle Indices. In July's last week the Germans counted 482 Russian tanks destroyed in the Kalach sector, index of the Don loop battle's fierceness. In the month's last ten days they counted 815 Soviet aircraft destroyed...
...that region the Russians last week announced a huge roundup of fifth columnists abetted by Nazi parachutists. In one Don sector alone 45 fifth columnists were summarily shot. Russian accounts did not identify them as part of the Germanic minority, but German-Russians. who have preserved their language and national customs, undoubtedly would be the best Nazi bet for stirring up trouble. More than 400,000 lived in the region which until last autumn was the German Volga Autonomous Republic, just north of Stalingrad. Many of them had been removed (TIME, Sept. 15) to prevent behind-the-lines treachery...
...bridge the cleavage between the fine arts and the popular and practical arts of common life. When she died, last year, she was a little like a pioneer whose imitators, lacking her simple, sincere feeling for the authentic, deep-buried roots of U.S. life, were busily taming her savage sector into a profitable, suburban truck garden...
...Russians beat back both arms of the pincers drive on Stalingrad, in dustrial capital of the Lower Volga, in ferocious tank battles, and they claimed to have boxed off one big German armored force in theat sector, but they admitted a steady retreat along the Southwest end of the Caucasus line...