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...risk of losing the very men we need in law and medicine, for example,--men of personal force--unless we can shorten the road that leads to a professional career. To do this we must sacrifice with reluctance some of the values inherent in a four-year college education which in normal times is a prerequisite for later work in almost all of our professional schools...
...British fought mightily to shorten the time; until Antwerp was opened, there could probably be no major assault on the western front...
...German strategy. Seven or eight days before the beginning of the Russian offensive the commander of the Group of Armies, Field Marshal Ernst Busch, arrived at my headquarters and heard my report regarding the disadvantage of my overextended position and my request for permission to withdraw in order to shorten the line...
...another phase of these plans. The astute Observer added up the signs that Adolf Hitler proposes to fight for months, that he has utterly destroyed every source of democratic or leftist resistance, that even the Junkers, industrialists and generals are neither able nor anxious to throw him out and shorten the war, that the Nazis actually do have plans to go underground...
...Russians' principal objective is Berlin. What they want to do in Finland is liquidate the war on this front, shorten their front by some 600 miles, free 30 to 50 divisions, drive the Germans from their North Cape positions (from which they are still seriously harassing Allied sea lanes), free their Baltic fleet to cut German communications to Norway and northern Finland. The Russians believe these aims can be achieved without the military occupation of Finland. But they believe that the present Finnish Government must...