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Opening in Stockholm last month, John Steinbeck's anti-Nazi, inferentially Norwegian The Moon Is Down proved such a smash that it speedily moved to a bigger theater. Swedish critics, speaking of evergrowing Norwegian resistance, praised Steinbeck for prophetic insight, remarked that The Moon Is Down is truer today than when it was written...
Steinbeck's story has had the attention that a pertinent argument deserves. As a book it sold nearly 1,000,000 copies and as a play, after a poor start on Broadway, where it ran only nine weeks, it was a smash on the road. Twentieth Century-Fox paid Steinbeck a record $300,000 for the movie rights...
...form one of the best natural barriers in Russia. Last year this barrier served the Germans; this year it will serve the Red Army and hamper any German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind enough equipment for a full army corps. At week's end Timoshenko's army was threatening Staraya Russa, Nazi-held fortress just south of Lake Ilmen...
...most serious Russian setback came in the Donets Basin itself, where the Red Army has been trying for two weeks to smash south against the main German armies. The Germans halted the drive with heavy counterattacks against the Russian right flank northwest of Stalino. This week Berlin claimed that other forces crossed the Donets River near Izyum. If this report was true, it meant that the Germans may succeed in breaking up the Red Army's drives through the Donets and toward the Dnieper...
...This demonstration of the friendly feelings on the part of the British people for the army of the Soviet people strengthens our confidence that the moment is near when the armed forces of our countries, by joint offensive operations, will smash our common enemies...