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Until a month ago the attacks on Russia and China were direct. Then Germany began trying to stabilize its Russian front and Japan turned from China to attack the Philippines and Singapore. Object: to effect a vast pincer movement aimed at choking the only adequate supply lines to Russia and China, the Persian Gulf route and the Burma Road...
...greatest of Axis pincer movements threatened the world last week. The pinch was aimed at Russia. Indirectly it was aimed at all world hopes of escaping the worldwide designs of Adolf Hitler...
...western prong of the pincer was the German Army closing on Moscow (see p. 24). The eastern prong so far consisted of small Japanese generals sipping green tea, studying their detailed plans for attacking Siberia. But now that a Japanese general was premier at last (see col. 2), it seemed inevitable that Japan would attack Siberia...
...could.* At once Japan, which has spent the past months unable to make up its mind about anything, found itself faced with a new enigma-Vladivostok. Probably U.S. supplies for Russia would be routed to Vladivostok. The Japanese General Staff began to see possibilities of an Allied pincer threat toward Japan based on Vladivostok and Singapore. As of last week, the Japanese did not know the answer...
Early this week that outcome may have been foreshadowed by the German High Command-vastly more reliable than the official Nazi D.N.B. news agency-which claimed that the chief Russian forces in the center around Smolensk had been "destroyed." Russia admitted that a powerful German pincer thrust toward Kiev had reached Belaya Tserkov, 60 miles southwest of the city...