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Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...
Cavalryman of the Southwest, where one army is moving side-by-side with Golikov's troops toward Kharkov and another is pushing down the railway below Millerovo toward Rostov, is Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin, 42. Another veteran of the Czarist Army and the Revolution, Vatutin was an Army commander in the Ukraine when the Germans invaded it. He skillfully retreated from the Dnei-per Bend, then helped Marshal Timoshenko launch successful counterattacks...
Master of the Don is Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, 50, one of the tallest (6 ft. 4 in.) officers in the Red Army. He was a Czarist major in the last war, joined the Red Guards in 1917. During the defense of Moscow he commanded the central sector on the Smolensk highway, later was shifted to the south. His armies were part of the Red pincers which trapped the Germans at Stalingrad. Now he is mopping up the Don Bend...
Below Stalingrad Kerr found 44-year-old, stocky Lieut. General Rodion Yakovlievich Malinovsky, a onetime Czarist soldier who fought beside a U.S. division in France during World War I. Kerr asked General Malinovsky to explain the Red Army's power...
...diagnoses and prognoses of sick nations," Professor Hooton had a lot to say on almost every important European country. Russia, he maintains, has adequate raw material with which to form a good and peaceable society. "The trouble is that it is too raw," he added. The severity of the Czarist-regime forced of liquidation of the powerful elements of pre-Communist Russia he asserted. The result of this process has been the rise of "paranoid and sadistic dictators who have created a despotism far worse than was that of the Czars--more bloody and even less efficient...