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Simplest of all battle strategies is to strike at the enemy's center long enough to make him concentrate his strength there, then roll up the flanks, encircle the whole and annihilate. Though it seems almost too simple for such a devious commander, that is Adolf Hitler's strategy in Russia. He struck at the center, at Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, and won great victories which alarmed the Russians. He then went to work on the southern flank, the Ukraine (see below). Finally, last week, he concentrated on the northern flank, the Leningrad sector (see below). If he succeeded...
...country's ills the past eight years except the drought and the grasshoppers. . . . Evidence that the law is needed is found in fact that the Democrats, loudest campaign critics of the measure, have not repealed it although in complete Congressional power since 1933. The flank attacks on the tariff system by reciprocal trade treaties merely indicate recognition of system's value to America. Very unfortunate to start undermining protective tariff system now when the ending of the war with accompanying rush for markets will make America (which is the best market in the world) the dumping ground...
...Nazi conquest of Russia (wrote the analysts in the White House) would: 1) remove armed resistance from Germany's eastern flank; 2) extend Germany's flank to the Pacific; 3) furnish Germany needed resources from Russia and the Middle East; 4) allow an all-out attack on the British Isles; 5) allow a drive for Nazi conquest of all Northern Africa; 6) strengthen German propaganda peace moves...
Moving them up was no easy job Cloudbursts of both rain and bombs had played havoc with the 400 miles of communications the Germans had now strung out behind them and 2,000 miles from flank to flank. Mechanized equipment was getting just as tired as human equipment; it also had to be replaced...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...