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...midnight broadcast Radio Bucharest reported that "the Government at present is master of the situation." (Earlier Radio Bucharest reported that a political assassin had tried, but failed, to kill Premier General Nicolai Radescu...
...darkness of censorship and isolation, radio waves brought a troubled voice from Russian-occupied Rumania. It was the voice of Premier Nicolai Radescu, a greying professional soldier with scant political experience but a strong executive hand. General Radescu had taken office last December with approval of the Allied Control Commission. His chief task was to forge a Government of "national unity" to carry out Moscow's armistice terms. Now he complained bitterly that the leftist National Democratic Front (N.D.F.) was obstructing his every effort...
Above all, those were the days when hate was born. As Nicolai Tikhanov of the Writers' Union says: "In the course of cruel battle grew a hatred of the Germans - a heavy hatred, an indistinguishable hatred, a personal hatred, a hatred which still moves the Red Army and the Soviet people forward." On June 23, 1942, Mikhail Sholokhov wrote a terrific news paper story called The School of Hate, setting the pitch for the hate propaganda, of which Ilya Ehrenburg became the strident genius. The Russian people still feel that hatred and are very much afraid that the British...
...Nicolai Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." The epithet was unfair. True, Molotov is colorless, pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
Outstanding among these are the historic three who fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...