Word: nikolaev
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...back him up. Now he feels sorely threatened, welcomed Johnson's talk of increased military aid. But he does not now want U.S. troops. Instead, his faith in U.S. resolution shaken, he is talking of shifting to a more neutral stance. Recently he apologized to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Nikolaev for being unable to like Communism, said he would welcome aid from any source. His apparent intent is not to swing Thailand into the Communist camp, but rather to get more closely in step with his neutralist neighbors (Burma, Cambodia. India), and take out insurance for the day when, conceivably...
...freighter Klim Voroshilov, flying the Hammer & Sickle, wallowed into Marseilles harbor. She had come from Nikolaev, on the Black Sea, with the first 5,234 tons of the 500,000 tons of wheat promised to France by Russia...
When the Russians recaptured Kharkov last week, they found that the huge Kharkov Tractor Works had been in partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least...
...final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron, and to have reached the sea east of Odessa and the port of Nikolaev...
...Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt to extend his control down the west shore of the Black Sea, but that is an opportunity he can only wait and hope for. His major...