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...materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
...only did the Germans lose two more campaigns-in the Baltic States and northern Italy-but on the western front they were fighting another battle which was going badly for them...
North of Zakharov, in turn, the Third White Russian Army pressed against the easternmost reaches of East Prussia. Still farther north the First Baltic Army pushed deep into southern Latvia, to within 20 miles of Riga. The Germans said the Russians were driving with 40 divisions. In any event, the largest land army in the world was again on the move, its spearheads only 325 miles from Berlin...
Winter and summer clothing, bedding, and shoes for devasted Russian homes from the Baltic to the Black Seas are the object of the Cambridge Russian War Relief's door-to-door collection this Thursday. Part of a Greater Boston drive, city trucks will pick up bundles left in front of homes, at fire stations, or at the Y.M.C.A. at Central Square...
...stretching of the fighting front is a painful business for an enemy holding undermanned positions. In the east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank...