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Excerpts from Communiqué No. 1 of the Agriculture Department, reporting on "major battles against insect allies of the Axis...
Joseph Stalin sent a new Red Army into battle this winter. Moscow communiqués and dispatches, making this fact plain last week, also told more about the Red Army's command and methods than the outer world had ever known before...
...aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like those of the Don commander, Lieut. General K. Rokossovsky, and Lieut. General...
...this extent the Russians appeared to be succeeding. How much more they had gained in German forces defeated and new positions taken was not clear from the Moscow and Berlin communiques. The Russians said that since Nov. 19 they had killed and captured 273,500 Germans, Rumanians, Hungarians, Italians. Berlin communiqués gave a possible indication that the Luftwaffe was in trouble: the claimed ratio of German and Russian losses declined from 12-to-1 to 4-to-1. But there was no conclusive news...
...Chinese have had to balance their fear of Japanese armies massed in northern Burma against the fear that the Allies might strike too soon. It looked last week as though the Chinese had argued one side of their case better than the other. General Wavell's cautiously worded communiqué made the British advance appear to be either an attempt to divert Japan from attacking southern China or a bid for hop-off positions for a future offensive, rather than a broadly conceived campaign to reconquer Burma...