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...shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn, cut the Red army and Russia from its Caucasian oilfields and enormously complicate Russian supply problems from outside...
...columnists were summarily shot. Russian accounts did not identify them as part of the Germanic minority, but German-Russians. who have preserved their language and national customs, undoubtedly would be the best Nazi bet for stirring up trouble. More than 400,000 lived in the region which until last autumn was the German Volga Autonomous Republic, just north of Stalingrad. Many of them had been removed (TIME, Sept. 15) to prevent behind-the-lines treachery...
...vermin" press, Attorney General Francis Biddle presented his much-laden findings to a Washington grand jury, last week got the jury to indict 27 men and one woman for conspiracy to promote revolt and disloyalty among members of the U.S. armed forces. Rounded up for a trial this autumn were some of the country's best-known and loudest rabble-rousers, anti-Semites, Anglophobes, Roosevelt-haters, defeatists, Axis agents and just plain crackpots...
Have we the men [to open a Second Front]? We have more than the number who saved Moscow last autumn, more perhaps than the number whom Timoshenko commands. Have we the machines? We have Matildas and Valentines, and Timoshenko fights with them. We have two-pounders to equal the German 37-mm. We have six-pounders to surpass their 50-mm. We have new tanks designed for the close country of Flanders and France. We have mastery...
...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...