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...more likely explanation for the toll of prisoners was the swiftness of the Russian attack. Hitherto, Russian assaults have been battering operations carried out largely by pedestrian troops. For the first time in the war Timoshenko had mounted an agile, Panzer-type, fast-moving attack that encircled and overwhelmed. The Germans were apparently surprised as much by this as by the suddenness of the onslaught...
...leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...
This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was "local"-the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto indecisive effort to relieve Stalingrad itself by blows at the Germans' flanks and rear, between the Volga and the Don. But its full possibilities, if realized-which they are still to be-might be immense. Disrupting Germany's winter line in the south, blocking the diversion of Nazi forces to the Mediterranean, perhaps cutting off the Germans in the Caucasus, were among the conceivable consequences...
...certain margin last year-not in relative numbers of men and weapons, but in capacity for winter war. Perhaps the Russians were hoping only to exploit that margin again when, according to German reports last week, they began to concentrate forces for a two-pronged offensive on their hitherto inactive fronts between Moscow and Leningrad. These preparations may enable the Russians to take advantage of any further margin which the Mediterranean front may create...
...Some thought this might refer to gas. The Nazis, however, have hitherto held that gas warfare is unpractical, would harm them as much as the enemy...