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...film this day's fighting for Soviet Government archives, the Russian cameramen went into action with front-line land, sea & air forces from the Baltic to Sevastopol. Their work, popularly known as June 13th (TIME, Oct. 19), was exhibited in Russia only. As edited by the MARCH OF TIME, One Day of War packs the best of this film into 20 minutes of intensely exciting action...
Stolid Premier Per Albin Hansson looked anxiously over clean, quiet Stockholm, at Sweden's six-thousand-mile-long frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...
...Millerovo. This week Moscow announced another victory: the long siege of Leningrad was in a fair way to be lifted; Russian troops had captured the pivotal, fortified city of Schlüsselburg, some 25 miles to the east, where the Germans based their inland line around the great Baltic port. From the Baltic to the dark and bloody ground of the Caucasus, the German Wehrmacht was in retreat...
...Pancreas glands are being gathered from the slaughterhouses of the Baltic States and the Ukraine to make up a shortage of insulin for diabetics...
...with Stalin principally to keep British leftists quiet. Russia, on the other hand, was using the British talks in Moscow to gain time. Stalin soon decided, says Author Scott, that he could get more from Germany than from Britain-an interlude of peace and, incidentally, half of Poland, the Baltic states, Finland. Hitler was ready to concede the territorial pawns in the game, if he could neutralize temporarily the Russian military threat and get Russian raw materials...