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...strategy and tactics were orthodox: there was no time for trickery. He would hit a 20-mile sector of the German line with successive waves of infantry, each wave 20 to 30 divisions strong. Sometimes the German gunners would run out of ammunition. When he had punched a hole in the line, Red army tanks with infantry riding on their backs would drive through, sweep around and encircle the enemy flanks. Sometimes Zhukov trapped as many as ten German divisions this way. He would then stand off and pound them to pieces with his artillery. Writes German General Guderian: "Whenever...
...Allied Control Council, Zhukov sat like a Buddha and let the political generals do the maneuvering. When an American parachute captain shot four Red army deserters who were holding up Germans in the U.S. sector, Zhukov wrote a stiff note of protest, explained afterwards: "I had to write that. That's just a formality. What I really want to know is, where do you get men like that captain?" At public dinners Vishinsky ordered Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories...
...Costa Rica stops the driver at the border with a seven-mile gap near the scene of January's revolutionary fighting, but work now going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction...
...discouraging 2½ years, handsome Tiruvallur Thattaf Krishnamachari, Madras businessman, spoke up for private enterprise in India. As Nehru's able Minister for Commerce and Industry, Krishnamachari believed that "the private sector" could make a sizable contribution, even to Socialist-minded India. Last fall, when the government decided that India needed more steel mills, Krishnamachari proposed to give a contract to India's wealthy G. Birla interests. Pandit Nehru said...
...refugee problem is one of the biggest the Allied sector has to handle. No one is turned back, but all are carefully screened to week out spies. Lucky ones can find work in the Bundesrepublik but most are fated to exist on dole and live in camps. Two hundred thousand West Berliners, mostly refugees, are unemployed--one-fifth of the labor force...