Word: arctics
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...Russia, in the voice of Wendell Willkie in Moscow, pleading for a second front (see p. 27) and saying: "Next spring may be too late." But there was also hope in Willkie's voice, and there was still hope in Hitler's Europe. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean that hope sprang anew last week as men said, by their deeds: "Because men cannot wait too long, now is the time...
...said that America is now lagging in deliveries, although production is good, and recommended that the United States get busy opening up the Arctic route to Russia by way of Alaska, retaking the Aleutians in the process...
...Volga, to push the Red Army back into Asia, to leave it a weakened mass incapable of engaging the full German military might. If that were accomplished on the southern front, Bock could consider his forces well spent. Then, if an offensive in the north were to close the Arctic ports, Russia would indeed be cut off from her Allies; the Red Army, starved for sufficient supplies, would no longer be an immediate threat to Germanized Europe...
This was a job for Paul Bunyan; to wrest an all-weather road from the jealous Northland between early spring and autumn; to span the fierce, death-cold rushing rivers, the black custard quagmires; to cut switchbacks across the Great Divide, to make the way between the Arctic and the U.S. for a highway which some day may be as common as the Boston Post Road...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...