Word: battlefronts
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...whole Axis structure down. This is a chance, an opportunity to bring the war to an end, here and now. . . . Strike out to help Russia! Strike out violently! Strike even recklessly! But in any event such blows that really help will be our share and contribution to the Russian battlefront...
There was urgency about this, the only significant action on the Russian front last week. Only by shoving the Finns back could the Russians free the southern end of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad and ensure the swift flow of goods from the Arctic port to the Baltic battlefront...
Last week Candidate Geary was bee-busy, buzzing around the State in his Mercury, stinging away at McNary's record. To Oregon citizens, who now feel close to the battlefront, he recalled McNary's pre-Pearl Harbor stand: against repealing the Neutrality Act, against extending the draft...
...Speaker Rayburn's figures were correct, the U.S. would now have an Army of 1,056,000 men scattered over the earth, ready for battle. The Speaker did not specify what he meant by a "battlefront...
...Maisky & Moscow were saying: let the Allies choose one road, refuse to be fogged and defeated by alternatives and uncertainties. London and Washington responded, at least in part. Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broadcasting to his native Canada from Miami Beach, emphatically called Russia "the most critical battlefront in the history of civilization." Winston Churchill began to talk of "the spirit of the offensive and counter-attack." The day after Mr. Maisky spoke, Churchill promised Britons some successes along with blood, tears and reverses in 1942. And, if the U.S. public was preoccupied with Australia and MacArthur, Washington...