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...that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same year Adolf Hitler promised the German people "the greatest...
...snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid the first sections in utter silence. Chest-deep in the waters near the bank, they were cut, bloodied and sometimes knocked off their feet by ice floes. Once the Germans sensed that something was up and fired aimlessly at the dark river, wounding several Russian sappers. But Engineer Sosnovkin's men returned a second...
When he heard the news from excited Navy Secretary Frank Knox, all that Franklin Roosevelt could utter was an astonished "No!" In their living rooms, on the golf courses, driving in their cars, tens of thousands of profane Americans said: "Why, the yellow bastards!" Said the Hon. Gerald Prentice Nye, senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota, about to address an America First rally in Pittsburgh: "It sounds terribly fishy...
...known all along what that old bird 'thinks of labor. ... He should be removed so the war effort should not be further impeded." Philip Murray, C.I.O. president: ". . . one of the most dangerous blows at the unity of this nation. . . ." William Green, A.F. ofL. boss: ". . . stupidity and utter ridiculousness...
...Nazis opened a new attack with an air bombardment. All of the Red Barricade plant, "a spectacle of utter chaos," was captured, said a German communiqué. The Spartakovka settlement near by, where factory workers had dwelt, also fell to the Germans. The Dzerzhinsky factory was plastered with tons of bombs. As the fighting surged into new parts of northern Stalingrad, the section of railway yards, oil tanks and huge warehouses, the Germans tried to mushroom north & south from captured positions. Russian flank attacks halted them...