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...Eyes. The German people were finally told that catastrophe confronted their armies in Russia. Berlin's home propagandists prepared their audiences for the greatest shocks of the war-and for a major change in German strategy. Said the official German news agency: "The German High Command plans to shorten the whole of the Russian front and to build up a new main defense line." Broadcasters and communiqués admitted that the Germans were retiring from the Caucasus, that for the remnants of the once-great army at Stalingrad "there was nothing left but death...
...week they held their lines on the Don's east bank. They slowly drove southward in an advance (toward Kotel-nikov) which tightened the grip on the Germans at Stalingrad. Stones in Berlin. In the areas of the chief Russian drives the Germans admitted that they had to "shorten their lines." They said that the Russians had opened some gaps; they failed to claim that all the holes had been closed. But nowhere did the Germans attempt strategic retreats, or show the slightest sign that they intended to withdraw to safer winter lines. Wherever Axis troops lost a position...
...college plans to grant degrees on the basis of Army Institute work alone, but it is expected that the Institute will offer an opportunity to fill gaps in the work of a man who leave college in the middle of his course of study. Training while in uniform will shorten the length of time necessary for study after...
...initiate the new policy, long sought after by the lads across the River, the entire Business School including the associated Naval Supply and Quartermaster Corps, will remain in session over Columbus Day. The rest of the University, more fortunate for the time being, will manage to shorten the fall term by six days while still retaining all holidays...
...province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another in Tibet (TIME, July 27) which may shorten the new routes for supplies. Both men, dominating huge areas where the Moslems (onequarter of the population in the Northwest) have escaped the remarkable assimilative powers of the Chinese, are friendly with the Chiang government. With both, the Gissimo and his pretty wife presumably discussed national affairs...