Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannon fire from Russian Stormoviks wrecked Nazi tanks. The Russians' massed artillery, their infantry's deadly, two-man anti-tank guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails ripped up German armored columns as they did in last year's battles. But last week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics...
...effect of this class of suppression is to extend censorship from its proper military to its improper political sphere, to make it possible for the Government to make important political agreements behind the backs of the public (as in the recent visit of Molotov), to put an end to the ideal of open covenants openly arrived...
...Molotov - "a small man with a Groucho Marx mustache." He always looked "as though he [was] watching someone else sucking a lemon...
Message & Reminder. These were almost the words that Russia wanted to hear from Molotov, back from London and Washington with his agreements for war and post-war collaboration (TIME, June 22). They were not quite a final declaration that he had been promised a second front this year. But, in their whole context, they were an unequivocal statement that Russia now expects her Allies to open a second front-in Europe, in 1942. In this sense, they were a reminder to Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt...
...decisions which would answer Molotov, the world had to wait. But Churchill's sudden visit to the U.S., Molotov's grave words and the graver threat to Russia (see p. 21), all the crowding crises of last week hammered home a fact so simple that it was hard to grasp. In World War II there are no separate fronts. There are only sectors of one world-belting front. Mr. Molotov's cry for a fresh sector in Europe had to be balanced against cries from Chungking (see p. 25); against the threat looming from the Aleutians...