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That afternoon an official communiqué from the White House said: "Complete understanding and harmony exists between all concerned in facing the vast and grave tasks which lie ahead. A number of outstanding points of detail which it would have been difficult to settle by correspondence have been adjusted by technical officers after consultation with the President and the Prime Minister...
...week's end the Russians said that German planes were dropping iron rails, plowshares, other clanging hunks into the city to demoralize besieged civilians. The Russians showed no signs of demoralization. Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...
...Kharkov action was local in its immediate purpose and effect; it was not. the major Nazi offensive which the world still awaited. Berlin stated the simple fact when a communiqué called the Kharkov advance an action to "straighten the lines...
...last fortnight the Japanese had amassed a great armada. According to the U.S. Navy's later communiqués, this fleet must have included at least five carriers, three to five battleships, many cruisers, destroyers and submarines, with troop transports to occupy points which the advance forces had battered...
...they were preludes, most of the signs appeared on the way to Moscow. Near Kalinin, northwest of the capital, the Germans claimed 1,500 Russian dead, 2,000 prisoners. "Frontline corrections," the Nazi communiqués called these engagements, suggesting preparations for something bigger. The Russians, confirming action in this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad...