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...Although the upper stories of Maxim Gorki Fort are in our hands and the battle line has moved some 1,400 yards forward. Soviet soldiers deep under ground in the lower stories continue to resist. We have sent negotiators to explain to them that further resistance is useless, but they won't come out. . . ." So it was at every fort and pillbox, on all the stinking, bloody hills around Sevastopol, where the dead rotted in the sun and there were always more Germans and Rumanians to be killed. So it was at Balaklava, eight miles south of the city...
...days, the fall of Sevastopol had been near. But the Russians had been stubborn. German artillery blazed point-blank at the concrete, steel and limestone of Maxim Gorki " Fort. Bombs chewed great craters in its upper levels. At 800 yards, then at 500, the mouths of the fort's 13-in guns yawned at the attackers, so close that the pressure from the blasts crushed tanks and men, and the orange and crimson flames seemed to singe the dead. When the Germans at last swarmed over the fort, a Nazi radio reporter's voice crackled with epic exasperation...
Wary, wise Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff sat in on at least one matinee discussion, emerged poker-faced. He was probably the only person outside the Big Two who was told all that had been decided. For the details remained secret. On Winston Churchill's return by bomber to Great Britain, a joint statement, finally recognizing the bad news pouring in, was issued...
Columnist Clapper confirms his pragmatism thus: "Public opinion will not tolerate indefinitely theories that don't work in practice." He consciously writes his column for "the people I knew out in Kansas," and his favorite maxim is "Never overestimate the people's knowledge nor underestimate their intelligence...
Under these circumstances, such agreements as were in the making this week were within the limits of the politically expedient. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote...