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...that delay. But against delay the course of the Battle of Russia argued just as insistently. By spring, if Russia's resistance should be broken, most of Germany's crack troops from the eastern front would have been moved to the west to meet the new threat. And while the decision hung in the balance, the shipping power of the United Nations, critically essential for the second front, was being whittled down by Adolf Hitler's submarines, against the best defense the Allies could make, against the most heroic production of new ships the U.S. could achieve...
...slice up the Trans-Siberian, come to rest near Lake Baikal, retake the rich half of Sakhalin which they lost after winning it 17 years ago. Then they will have a sufficient barrier between Russia and Japanese Asia. They will have removed, at Vladivostok, an ever-present threat of Russian or U.S. air attack on Tokyo itself. Russian aid to China will be completely shut off, and Chiang Kai-shek's resistance may finally be smothered...
Soon we came safely down on the home field and Tex swept in with his fighters. He walked toward us, his long wiry body moving with a roll that held a kind of threat in it. He looked like nothing so much as a steely-eyed Texas cowboy killer. On his face was a broad grin and in his blue eyes was a hard, bright, but delighted, look...
...under Germany's economic thralldom; 3) partial defeat, with the Red army retreating behind the Urals and European Russia's people and resources abandoned to the Axis, at least for the present. The first possibilities seemed remote enough to be ruled out. The third was a real threat. Loss of European Russia would mean these things to the other United Nations...
...over both radio and stage conventionality, he has turned upon the moving picture business in a brave attempt to make it into a real art. "Citizen Kane" demonstrated great possibilities for advance in technique and threatened the complacency of the movie industry. Unfortunately "The Magnificent Ambersons" merely repeats that threat...