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...Army advanced six miles near the confluence of the Gzhat River and the mighty Volga's headwaters. Bridgeheads were established across the Gzhat. The Russians met terrific resistance from Germans holding a railway line until a simultaneous frontal and flank assault forced a Nazi retreat. Day after day the Russians hammered forward across the Volga and into the outskirts of Rzhev. House by house the Germans defended the city which had been their most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns...
...call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...
Near Voronezh, 300 miles north of Rostov, the Red army lunged savagely at the Germans, striving to turn the enemy's flank and relieve pressure on the bulge toward Stalingrad. The thrust was feeble. Russia's gravest hour was at hand...
General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...directions, once even roared "Tovarich!" at Joseph Stalin. The United Nations might have a few misgivings, but still there was no basis to doubt that Turkey's big hope is still to stay neutral. In World War I Turkey took a violent beating as an active flank of the Central Powers. In World War II, as a neutral flank of both sides, she has suffered no more than nerve strain and high cost of living. Neutrality lessens the danger of real conflict between those of her citizens who are pro-Axis (mostly upper and middle classes) and those...