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...your move, Mr. President." So spoke Joe Ball, ablest young Republican internationalist, Senator from Minnesota, the Bi of the B2H2 group in the Senate...
Books and Death. In his dugout later, Rotmistrov met Soviet newsmen. Happily he talked of J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley, of cabbages, and kings, and strategy. The newsmen were impressed: this tall, athletic man was a hero, one of Russia's ablest tank tacticians. Stooping over a map, he explained how the troops of the Second Ukrainian Front made a narrow breach in the German defenses, converted it into a major triumph...
Canada had important business pending with her sister Dominion, the Union of South Africa. What the business was, the astute East Block (Canadian equivalent of the U.S. State Department) did not say. But to handle it the Dominion last week assigned one of her ablest constitutional lawyers. He is shrewd, friendly Charles J. Burchell, who left a rich practice in his native Nova Scotia to enter Canada's diplomatic service in 1939. Until last week he was High Commissioner in war-important Newfoundland; before that, the first High Commissioner to Australia...
...this desperate game audacity paid fat returns-or ended in disaster. It was audacity which led General Nikolai Vatutin, one of Russia's ablest exponents of blitz warfare, to strike west of Kiev with tanks and horsemen, without adequate infantry or cannon. The muddy roads delayed supplies and reinforcements, but the opportunity to deal the Wehrmacht a finishing blow was too tempting to forgo. Zhitomir fell (TIME, Nov. 22). The cavalry corps which took it seemed poised for a raid into prewar Poland...
...recapture Kiev, the Russian Supreme Command had picked two of its ablest field commanders: Generals Konstantin Rokossovsky and Nikolai Vatutin. Their armies arrived before Kiev in September, weary after the summer's cruel fighting. For many weeks, they stood in an arc before the city, regained strength, indifferently pounded the enemy defenses...