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...French Face. The high commissioners disagreed. The battle between them began on the Petersberg, then shifted to the U.S. headquarters at Frankfurt. Unresolved, it was transferred by plane to Berlin, where the commissioners had a date to attend a Yehudi Menuhin concert. They had invited Lieut. General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of the Russian zone, but Chuikov's seat was vacant...
...tutelage of Germany required foresight and cohesion, that the job could never be done by high commissioners pulled this way and that by narrow considerations of advantage to their nations. If that lesson was not learned, the only gainer from the Bonn experiment would be the absent Russian General Chuikov...
Last week General V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, ordered restoration of "transport, trade and communications services" at 12:01 on Thursday morning of this week. Chuikov's order was repeated on the Moscow radio. At the same moment, the Western counter-blockade would...
...guns thundered out along the Oder. The Marshal's tested team of Army commanders-Colonel Generals Katukov and Bogdanov of the tanks; Belov, the cavalry leader; Chuikov. who led the 62nd Russian Army at Stalingrad; Popov, Kolpakchi, Tsvetayev-moved their men forward...
...Army headquarters was moved five times. At one stage the Russian position seemed so hopeless that Lieut. General Vassili Chuikov, who commanded the Sixty-Second Army under Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, ordered his chief of staff to cross to the east bank of the Volga. His chief refused and said: "We will win or die together...