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This year the Russian spring is a threat, not a promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...first radio address to the U.S. last February, Litvinoff appealed for a second front indirectly, half-humorously: Russia, long the world's stepchild, does not like to beg anything. Said Litvinoff: "We are proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights...
...Force in Australia reached across the Torres Strait to smash at the Jap on New Guinea, airmen from Main Street got acquainted with exotic strangers...
Mike Ford, record-smashing pole vaulter, had a tough afternoon. On his first trial jump, he twisted his ankle, as he fell, and thought he was out for the next two weeks. Although he later discovered that he was safe from the bench, he proceeded to smash his favorite pole on another trial...
...British ships cruised in the swirling snowstorms and heavy mists of the North Sea, or crouched before Trondheim against the smash the Germans might make from Trondheim and Helgoland against the long artery to Murmansk and the Russian front...