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...main front, Marshal Ivan Konev, with the certainty of immense power, slowly extended his advance south of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's grip on the Oder River to form a bulgeless front. By this week their combined front threatening Berlin was 90 miles long-twice as long as it had been two weeks before...
...from dike to dike, in their water-churning, mud-biting "Buffalo" and "Weasel" vehicles. On dry land the going was nearly as bad. The Germans had been able to concentrate. But by this week, behind fine air interference, Crerar's men had hacked out a dozen miles of grip on the Rhine. More importantly, his kilted Scots had broken into Goch, a hub of roads running into the industrial district west of the Rhine...
...Zhukov paused, to strengthen his grip. Perhaps there was no great danger, but there was still some danger in attempting a quick blow against Berlin. Zhukov well knew what the Germans knew too well: that a sprawling city becomes a fortress, that an attacking force risks being pinched into its ruins by flank attacks. That was what Zhukov had done to the Germans at Stalingrad...
...possibilities of the Konev and Zhukov drives were tremendous. Konev presumably had the power to expand his Silesian grip toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch...
...Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run house, it has yet to appear on Broaway...