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...year may be of a conservative and isolationist bent. In order to insure the selection of an internationally-minded nominee, Mr. Roosevelt must now take positive steps to strengthen his own control of his party. That effort is not only a matter of New Deal strategy, but of the gravest national importance as well. Only liberal control of the 1944 Democratic Convention can prevent another Harding...
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...
Other basic faults in organization-well-known to many & many a Briton-hamper the British Army. One of the gravest is in Britain's armored divisions, whose auxiliary units of infantry and artillery are merely "attached" to the main forces and may be detached at any time. In the German and U.S. Armies, armored divisions are firmly welded units, with tanks, artillery, infantry and even aviation permanently under the same command. The British Army's tenacious hold upon its ancient & honorable distinctions goes deep into British character; but it is no help at beating the Germans...
...ventured to compare losses with those of Britain's gravest hour in World War I, April 1917, when sinkings touched almost 850,000 tons, or the succeeding four months, when they averaged about 500,000 tons a month. But certainly 241 ships lost in 137 days of war meant that losses were well over replacements, since ship production has averaged little more than one a day. And losses on other sea fronts, the Murmansk route and the Pacific, must be figured in to tip the balance even more unfavorably...
...Bitter. Although the disastrous rout in Malaya held the gravest military consequences for the United Nations, it would not, by itself, have provoked the violent political storm which began raging in Britain at week's end. The escape of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, however, was an altogether different cup of tea. Hitler could not have concocted a bitterer brew. Any reverse at sea makes an Englishman gulp. But the violation of the English Channel by a mediocre Nazi fleet made the British definitely...