Word: leningrader
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Other Red armies hacked relentlessly at the railways without which no army can operate effectively in the marshy, wooded region between recently freed Leningrad-where German prisoners filed through the streets (see cut)-and the Pripet Marshes...
Credit for victory went to the planner: General Leonid Govorov, plump, short, middleaged, with unruly hair and a Hitlerian mustache. In 1940 this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city...
...hours. Music and the laughter of others irritate them. Someone asks a little girl why she is so silent. She answers: "Why do you smile?" From London last week came such reports of what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused mental damage so severe that "Soviet authorities feared it would be permanent." Some children cry at the slightest disappointment - for example, when they can not button their coats. Others cry when they see trinkets such as earrings, because they are reminded of their...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...
...rehabilitate these children, Leningrad last year established a chain of kindergartens where special teachers tried every treatment they could think of. The teachers soon found that "no manner of persuasion has any effect until the children become [physically] stronger." The best that can yet be said of the kindergartens is that they are "almost successful...