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...Army had thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
Berlin has made it plain that the Wehrmacht hopes to hold on to the Dnieper Line (see map). In the two weeks which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
...Constitution gives to the President and the Senate sole treaty-making powers for the nation. For 154 years the Senate has guarded this prerogative with fierce jealousy. But during World War II the Senate has been the scene of no really great debate over foreign policy. Even as Smolensk fell, and as U.S. citizens debated the postwar world with ever-increasing intensity, the Senate wriggled and stalled...
...Captured Smolensk, the northern anchor of the last major defense line available to the Wehrmacht in Russia. Once Hitler had his headquarters in this ancient walled city, and from here the Wehrmacht rumbled into its futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...