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...discovered a mounting wave of confidence, along with evidence that the Russian armies were nearer defeat last September than the world then knew. Last week they held their lines on the Don's east bank. They slowly drove southward in an advance (toward Kotel-nikov) which tightened the grip on the Germans at Stalingrad. Stones in Berlin. In the areas of the chief Russian drives the Germans admitted that they had to "shorten their lines." They said that the Russians had opened some gaps; they failed to claim that all the holes had been closed. But nowhere...
Trains waited at way stations five to 20 minutes while mountains of mail sacks, tons of parcel post were transferred on windswept platforms. At some stations mail loads were 75% greater than last year. Meanwhile the heroic railroads kept a firm grip on the vital flow of war freight moving to the dark, silent ships at icy ports, switched the daily average of 6,000 carloads of supplies to U.S. camps and plants...
...casualties, not from fear but because of a desire to finish the job with a strong force still in hand. The Australians want to get the job over. The majority of Australian objectives have been gained with bayonet charges. Both methods are achieving their purpose, and the slow grip of strangulation tightens round Japan's last Papuan garrison. It is a tougher fight than anyone expected, and it is a longer job. The soldiers, American and Australian, now know they are not playing for marbles...
There were hopes that there would be shifts in personnel within the party or Cabinet or both, which would transfer the Government's center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...tackle posts, Mike Kahn has held his grip on one of the jobs, but Lyman Beeman has forged ahead to take over the other. Art Bauman, Mac McNamara, and Ed Nabham are ready to fill any gaps...