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Ankara reported vast German concentrations along the Eastern Front, predicted unprecedented carnage. The Russians, again on the defensive after their winter drives, brought up Siberian reserves, braced themselves for the shock of yet another great German offensive. Moscow showed confidence, but no complacency. Pravda remarked soberly that although the Luftwaffe had lost 5,090 planes during the winter, still "the enemy's air fleet is very strong and a potent weapon in the hands of the German command...
...past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
Rommel, who is never blind, sensed the move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...
LONDON--Russian tanks and infantry shock troops, fighting their way into the strong, deep main German defense system before Smolenzk, have smashed a series of enemy pill boxes and captured three inhabited places, the Soviets Monday midnight communique said today...
Eckstein recommends that the biggest possible soldiers be sent against the Japanese, in the most impressive possible mass. He warns against trying to use small men subtly, in the enemy's manner. He thinks that the talents born of Japanese smallness might be paralyzed by pure size and shock. But if Americans tried to beat them at their own game they would not only fail; they would also intensify Japanese scorn. On the whole, however, Eckstein is content to leave the winning of the war to warriors...