Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From southern Russia the news was distressingly parallel to that from France in 1940. In six weeks the Germans had plunged 300 miles deeper into the country. Tank columns concentrated in Schwerpunke ("thrust points") where enemy lines were weakest, broke through, then mushroomed out behind them. Mechanized infantry rushed through tank-opened gaps. Dive-bombers roared overhead...
...stopped short. Nowhere were there signs of disintegration of the Red Army, of any flagging in the Russian will to fight; of confusion, despair and flight such as heralded the fall of France. As long as the Red Army held together, as long as the mighty Volga and its parallel railway on the east remained in Soviet hands, the Battle of Russia was not lost...
...fundamentally, it is in Petrillo the phenomenon that the lasting significance of the AFM-recording interest fight rests. His recent edict emphasizes the startlingly parallel tactics of modern unionism and big business or not so many years ago. Petrillo's methods are as single-purposed and his position is as unassailable as those of any Henry Ford of business's laissez-faire days. In all his smaller undertakings of the past, from the day he got the closed shop for all Chicago musicians to his recent cancellation of a student orchestra broadcast from Interlochen on the grounds of amateur competition...
...Korea is the Austria of Asia: it was the first country overrun and exploited by the Asiatic aggressor. In other ways the parallel fails. The Japs are far more afraid of Korea than the Nazis are of Austria. To the Japanese, the Koreans are "inscrutable," as the Japanese themselves are to westerners. Ever since Japan took Korea in 1904, its Korean policy has wavered between uneasy placating and frantic terrorism. Grapevine news reaching the Korean National Front Federation in the U.S. last week showed quite clearly that Japan, however busy it might be elsewhere, could not turn its back...
...Banner. Ankara's rumor mills last week ground out the report that Joseph Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced...