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...hour in which the German Army is waging a very hard struggle there has appeared in Germany a very small group, similar to that in Italy, that believed that it could thrust a dagger into our back as it did in 1918. . . . It is a very small clique of criminal elements, which will now be exterminated quite mercilessly...
Wealthy Administration-haters in Palm Beach spent an impressive amount of time & money reminding Florida voters that Senator Pepper is a typical, nationally known personification of New Dealism. New Dealer Pepper retorted by snuggling even closer to the President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper...
Nikolai Vatutin's salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the Wehrmacht in the Ukraine...
Down Thrust. Instead of pressing the dagger westward, into old Poland, Zhukov turned the point south. Twelve German divisions-four of them armored-were swept aside, a 120-mile gap was torn open, gains of 35 miles were made by the third morning. Early this week Zhukov's men stood only 20 miles from the key German base of Tarnopol, in prewar Poland; only 30 miles from Rumania's border...
...Nevel sector, which looks like a dagger aimed at the Baltic States and northern Poland, there was fierce action again, and the Germans acknowledged a "major penetration" of their lines. West of Nevel some Russian columns were now within 50 miles of the Latvian, 40-odd miles of the Polish border. Gomel still faced doom and Red troops were barely a dozen miles from German held Vitebsk...