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Moscow realized that one of the grimmest winters in grim Russian history was drawing near. Yet New York Timesman Ralph Parker found "little brooding or despondency," even in homes struck by war casualties. The common experience of air raids, battles, occupation and flight drew the people together. As war's sharp elbow kept nudging their ribs, the Russians snatched what pleasures they could...
Somber as the future was, the present was grimmest of all for the people of Russia. But Russia's millions were rising to their trial with the ferocious courage of a people fired by undaunted faith in their motherland. Their Red army, battered and bleeding on the south Russian plains, was locked in history's greatest battle. Beneath Nazi bludgeoning the Red army was reeling back, back toward Stalingrad, back toward the Caspian, back toward Asia...
...tightest, grimmest war shortage facing the U.S. is rubber. It need not have been. For five months after Pearl Harbor the U.S. government did practically nothing effective to get a synthetic rubber industry created to fill the gap caused by Japan's conquests. That failure is the worst scandal of the U.S. war effort; the sort of scandal which, in another country, would have cost a couple of Ministers their jobs or perhaps have toppled a whole government. Only in the past eight weeks has a new team, with a passion for anonymity, arisen in Washington to take hold...
...twelve essays in The Wind is Rising, covering the twelve grimmest months in the bloody biennium from August 1939 to August 1941, chart the wavering course of Tomlinson's adjustment to the fact that this war is different. He writes: "I still think war an obscene outrage on the intelligence. I should not be in the least upset by what Communists call the downfall of British Imperialism. I see no reason to alter a line of what I wrote of war and peace in Mars His Idiot. . . . But this challenge by the Nazis is ultimate. . . . I know that some...
Somewhere in eastern Asia, probably at Rangoon, members of the Unified Allied Supreme Command (see p. 17) met this week to make ready an Allied success. There a good man reported to his chief on one of the shortest, strangest and grimmest commands ever held by a British general...