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...northern front the Russians fared better. The attack on Leningrad-which the Germans persisted in calling by the Tsarist name, St. Petersburg-developed as a sneak around two lakes: Ladoga on the Finnish side, Peipus on the Estonian. The Finns, said a German reporter, fought so fanatically that they had to be restrained; but the Russians fought hard too. One German reporter described "bandits" on this front who fought with axes, daggers, broken bottles and adzes...
Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
...pall of smoke was reported over Leningrad. A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes. A German reporter in a Stuka said well: "There is nothing but confusion beneath us." In those seven days one fact stood up gaunt and real as the remains of a bombed wall. The Russians admitted on the third day that they had lost 374 planes while they had shot down 381 German planes...
...truth is that the principal shipments of war materials through the Soviet Union have been U.S. supplies going to China via Vladivostok and Swedish guns going to Turkey via Leningrad. The closing of both these avenues helps Germany and Japan some, helps Russia more, since it makes China and Turkey more dependent on Russia. No ban was placed on the shipment of supplies directly from Russia...
Rich, civic-minded President Judge William Curtis Bok of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, who has broken precedents by: 1) refusing to enter the family business (Curtis Publishing); 2) abandoning Main Line Republicanism for the New Deal; 3) hiring out as an Intourist chauffeur in Leningrad, shattered another by becoming the first judge to serve on a Federal jury. Explaining that his calendar was nearly cleared, earnest Judge Bok confided: "I've always wanted to know what went on in the mind of a juror and now is my chance to find...