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...Roosevelt did not disclose the specific amounts promised or sent, nor the shipment routes (Archangel or Vladivostok-see map). But earlier he had told Congressional leaders that Russian armies were far from defeat; that the Russians would not sell out or make peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
...same field kitchen, and actually go with them into battle. Another of the journalist-writers tells of traveling through Paris just after the occupation and seeing an officer, who had just taken a squad of his soldiers to dinner at a restaurant, pointing out on a map to them in a fatherly way the spots of interest they were going to visit together on a sightseeing tour that afternoon...
...while the U.S. sent goods tagged for Britain to Russia instead. Some of these goods would go to Russia across the Pacific to Vladivostok, and thence along the Trans-Siberian Railway. But for the time being most would go across the Atlantic and in by way of Archangel (see map). The Russians gave assurances that their efficient ice-breaking service would keep this life line open...
...apparently a monster drive at the two flanks of Moscow. It had its beginnings at points about 200 miles southwest and northwest of the capital. It developed slowly, beginning with heavy bombings of communications (see map), continuing with the usual mechanized thrusts and infantry attacks...
...suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man." After a while "the edges of the thigh pockets become stretched and lie open, fluted, like the gills of a fish. . . . The texture and the color change in union, by sweat, sun, laundering . . . into a region and scale of blues, subtle, delicious, and deft beyond what I have ever seen elsewhere approached. . . . [The shirt] breaks like snow, and is stitched and patched . . . and stitches and patches are manifolded upon the stitches and patches, and more on these, so that...