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Football (U.S. soccer) is Russia's biggest sport. But in the winter, skiing ranks No. 1. Editorials in Izvestia and Red Star have urged everyone to learn the sport both for health and military training, and last week the 110 ski runs around Moscow were thronged. Schoolchildren take to it like U.S. moppets to baseball...
Last week, on the eleventh day of the siege, Melitopol fell. Said Moscow's Izvestia: "Not one live German remains in the town. The dead ones can be counted by the thousands." Before the city fell, Hitler reportedly trebled each officer's pay, gave each soldier the Iron Cross. Stalin made the bravest of the victors Heroes of the Soviet Union...
...Russians, this assemblage bore promise of war's end. True, there was friction among the Allies, but it was not beyond repair. Indeed, open discussion of the friction might be a healthy sign. The Government's Izvestia ticked off samples of "developing cooperation": the recent food conference at Hot Springs, Va.; agreement on the economic rehabilitation of freed territory; the creation, at Stalin's suggestion, of the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission; the joint acceptance by the U.S.S.R., Britain and the U.S. of Italy's re-entry into the war as a cobelligerent...
Molotov's foremost demand will be for the second front. Furthermore, this familiar demand will be the keystone of the whole Soviet position, a pressure point to be used in bargaining for other demands. Said Izvestia last week: "The question of a decisive shortening of the war is unbreakably connected with the opening of a second front. . . . When there is agreement on this primary question ... it will be easier to decide all other necessary questions...
Russia. An Izvestia editorial warned Russians: "By no means should illusions be cherished that with Mussolini's going Fascism automatically perished. The alliance of Italian Fascism with Hitlerite Germany proved fatal for Italy. But it is just this alliance which will for some time yet support the tottering edifice of Italian Fascism. This is so because German troops are on the territory of Italy. . . . Nothing resembling a democratic, anti-Fascist coup d'état has taken place in Italy...