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Over the bodies of Russians who died fighting, the Germans advanced. With every mile lost and every day gone, Russia seemed to have fewer guns, tanks and planes for her sons. One of her sons composed a sparse communiqué in Moscow...
...machines to batter the Red Army back across dusty steppes toward the Volga. Colossal expenditures bought each hillock, each ravine, each village, exacting of the Russians losses at least as heavy. The precise location of the battle line was not revealed by either Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad. There the Germans had lost as many as 60 tanks on a single sector, but slowly they thundered...
...until a communiqué announced renewal of the assault on Madagascar did most of the public realize that Madagascar had never been under effective control of the United Nations. Britain's conquest had come to an abrupt halt after the invaders finished, mopping up scattered French resistance in the hills rimming Diégo-Suarez Bay. For 1,000 miles southward through the rest of the island Vichy-french officials had not come to terms. Last week the British really got down to taking control of Madagascar's ports, mineral wealth and agricultural resources...
...aspects of World War II's third anniversary, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said: "There must be no fourth anniversary." In the wake of Winston Churchill's flying visit there had been no assurance of a second front. Recalling June 11th's Russo-British-U.S. communiqués* after the London and Washington conferences, the Russians felt that a second front had been promised for 1942. Where the people a month ago asked "when," they now wondered...
...last few months. Apparently the U.S. fighter commander at Darwin, like-General Chennault, is an exceptionally astute leader. Last week the P-40s at Darwin did what theoretically they could not do: bagged a flock of Zeros at 25,000 feet, far above their normal altitude-the official communiqué called it a "brilliant tactical success," which it must have been...