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...Sullivan induced the Council to order Harvard, Radcliffe and M.I.T. to erase from thousands of books and maps the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad." Mayor John W. Lyons vetoed the order. Earlier, the Council had called on the State Legislature to rescue Cambridge from a "deepseated conspiracy" of Harvard "disciples of Karl Marx...
Throughout the world 7,000,000 refugees wandered blindly. In Poland in the first months of German conquest the conquered were killed at the rate of 10,000 a month, 300 a day, 14 an hour. In Leningrad alone hundreds of thousands have died of starvation and disease. In Athens a hundred thousand more-one in every seven -have starved to death...
...chances to win the war against Germany, greatly lessened the Germans' chances to come back this spring and summer. What had happened in south Russia, after the relief of Stalingrad, was now happening in the north. The Germans were retreating along most of a 700-mile front from Leningrad to Orel...
Peril in the North. The Soviet High Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...work of making munitions, erecting barricades and drilling the city's defenders never stops. The film has vivid shots of the lifeline that made Leningrad's resistance possible: the path across frozen Lake Ladoga, where railroad trains run on temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...