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...area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
Each day brought nearer the anniversary-June 22-of Hitler's march into Russia. It is not a date which Hitler can easily let pass without some major blow, somewhere. No such blow came last week. From the Leningrad front to the Sea of Azov, the leashed armies sniped at each other with local air and land forays. For all save the dead and the wounded, these forays may have been merely the interim routine of war. Or they may have been the preludes to decisive battle...
...vice versa. Not since the rise of Hitler had Britain and Russia been able to agree on even an effective basis of mutual self-preservation. When they tried to get together in 1939 the British balked at Russian control of the Baltic States (which last year helped to save Leningrad) and Russia plumped into the non-aggression pact with Germany. Later Britain helped Finland against Russia. Even after Hitler's attack on Russia last year, some Britons' abhorrence of Communism led them to hope that somehow Germany and Russia would destroy each other, while Russians remained equally suspicious...
Instead the German picked his spot for a preliminary attack; limited in scope if not in fury-possibly to get a jumping-off place for a big attack to be launched when weather permits from Leningrad to the Black Sea. The spot the Nazi chose was the Crimea, where his troops had held on through the winter with Russians in front of him and behind him (at Sevas-topol...
Izvestia, Soviet Government paper, made an important disclosure of one reason why last year's assault on Leningrad failed. Only 21 German divisions were used along a 200-mile front. If supply roads have been improved sufficiently this winter, Hitler might try to throw in enough more men and machines to crack Leningrad defenses despite its strong garrison and hard-fighting citizen army...