Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor N. Blinoff of the Leningrad Postgraduate Institute did not know that his beleaguered city would soon be free (TIME, Feb. 1) when he cabled to Britain a description of care of the sick and wounded during 17 months of siege. So his account, printed in the British Medical Journal, is only a fragmentary outline of a historic chapter of medical improvisation...
...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...