Word: battlefronts
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Before he settled down to his assignment, the Beaver detoured back to Miami Beach for a short rest. The Florida climate is beneficial to his asthma. It also inspired the Beaver to broadcast to his fellow Canadians his passionate conviction that the United Nations' No. 1 battlefront is Russia, where supplies and men must be rushed for a "deadly, offensive stroke." Giving a Beaverish twist to the Beatitudes, the welterweight lord declared: "Unless we have resolute, determined, brave citizens trained to handle the tanks and guns . . . then we cannot be blessed, we cannot be the peacemakers, we cannot inherit...
...sunny Crimea, on the southern end of the great Russian battlefront, soldiers of two nations saw the first signs of spring last week. To the Germans, the first buds and the first faint greening of the grass made a welcome sight. Their High Command announced the coming of spring. But to the Russians spring was bad news. Against the threat of burgeoning trees, they fought savagely from Kerch on Crimea's eastern tip to the snowbound Leningrad pocket...
After that the battlefront settled down. Communiques late in the week told of sporadic raids, light action. The reports were only another version of the slogan of the 31st Infantry (see below). The slogan...
...strategic necessity, said the President, was also "a very tough job." This great necessity was to maintain four lines of communication: 1) the North Atlantic, 2) the South Atlantic, 3) the Indian Ocean, 4) the South Pacific. (For a map of the world's battlefront Routes & Roads, see p. 15.) "A vessel can make a round trip by either route in about four months, or only three round trips in a whole year...
...battlefront was opened by the Axis last week. Its most active sector was the Caribbean. Its offensive weapon (to date) was the submarine. Its objective was to cut off the United Nations from a major source of high-octane aviation...