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Near Leningrad the news was equally bad for Russia. Berlin and Moscow communiqués, conflicting in detail, made one fact all too clear: Field Marshal Georg von Keuchler had smashed a Russian effort to drive a deep salient into the Nazi forces around the city, to compel them eventually to lift their siege. Berlin said that the Germans had destroyed the Russians' Second Shock Army; Moscow declared that the army was saved, admitted in effect that its effort to relieve Leningrad and forestall a summer offensive in the north had failed...
...those of the main German armies. But the immediate purpose of the second front-diversion from the Russian front-could be accomplished with a lesser effort, involving no more than 500,000 men. A bridgehead diversion, provided Britain can hold control of the air, might be enough to compel a major Nazi effort to head it off. Once established, the bridgehead could be used by more massive forces. Even if there were defeat-even another Dunkirk-the effort might or might not be worth while. But the U.S. Army does not think in terms of defeat. With overwhelming air power...
...after-effects will compel architects and designers to use new materials in new ways, to plan expanding cities intelligently, and to simplify building and commercial design, breaking the rule of tradition and "style," said Samuel P. Hershey, instructor in design, on the Crimson Network last night...
LONDON--Russian troops have recaptured 200 villages in the Rostov area, thrown the Germans back six miles west from Tagaurog and opened a thundering artillery barrage near Kharkov in a general southern front offensive that may compel the Germans to release their tightening grip on Moscow and send help there, Russian dispatches reported today...
...anti-strike legislation. Then he said something that many a U.S. citizen had never expected to hear from him. "I tell you frankly that the Government of the United States will not order, nor will Congress pass legislation ordering, a so-called closed shop. . . . The Government will never compel this 5% [unorganized miners] to join the union by a Government decree. That would be too much like the Hitler methods toward labor. The President asked the six men to confer, to reach an agreement, to report back to him two days later...