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...cheek-puffing and chest-swelling, his bellicose roars of Roman conquest from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (TIME, June 17), Dictator Benito Mussolini last week did not hurl his Italian war machine into World War II in German Blitzkrieg style. He had entered the war not to fight so much as to share a victory. Waiting for that time, he naturally edged into action cautiously. He laid some mines, dropped a few bombs, fired a few torpedoes, started a few tanks rolling in the remote Somalilands (see above). His people were not spoiling for a fight and he appeared...
These details, corroborated by other correspondents did much to explain the bog-down of Russia's would-be Blitzkrieg. What possessed Joe Stalin to hurl such cannon fodder at the well-trained Finns could only be guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down...
Estimates were lacking on the number of men Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them up for more crushing blows. The Finns said 40,000 of their men were standing off 80,000 Russians. Except at the Mannerheim Line, which the Salmi and Suojärvi attacks were evidently calculated to outflank, Finnish tactics were guerrilla retreat, using forests and lakes (not yet frozen solid...
Meanwhile in Moscow restaurants and on streetcars Soviet citizens could be heard remarking to each other with guffaws, "This Finn has gone mad. He is threatening to hurl a nation of 3,000,000 people against...
...With the 32-million-volt beam, new radioactive substances throwing off electrified helium gas have been discovered. The machine has performed so well that Dr. Lawrence now wants a bigger one. He considers it entirely feasible to build a 2,000-ton cyclotron - costing only $750,000-which will hurl atomic bullets at energies up to 200,000,000 volts. Atom-smashing, once the purest of pure sciences, is already edging toward practicability, especially in cancer therapy and other biological research (TIME, July 10). A 2,000-ton machine, manufacturing radioactive chemicals in large quantities, might even turn atom-smashing...