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Over Again. Zhukov had linked his power in the north with that of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Russian spearheads passed the Reich's borders, cut the main Berlin-Danzig railroad, surrounded Schneidemühl, an anchor point on the prewar defense wall Germany had built facing Poland. The main objective: Stettin...
...blow. Guderian must have realized that at best he could hope only to delay such a tide of power as Zhukov could unloose. The Russians heard reports that Guderian had threatened to resign unless he was permitted to withdraw westward to a line he believed would stop Zhukov: from Danzig through Poznań to Breslau...
...Churchill had a Christmas present for the Poles-partition. To a House of Commons still seething with the Greek crisis, he announced that, with Britain's consent, Russia would extend her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
Those of us who have sons in this war-I have two-are thinking of the French soldier and his "Why die for Danzig?" Why should my sons die only to have the ideals they have died for destroyed by a stupid, petty group of mediocre men who are no more fitted to decide the destiny of this great nation than I am? Why die for pressure groups, farm blocs, international cartels, war profiteers ? . . " There are no doubt honest and conscientious individuals in Congress. (I have recognized no statesmen.) One has only to study their faces, pictured at various times...
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