Word: smolensk
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...From Smolensk to Tunis last week, German troops were singing it. British soldiers were whiling away hot African evenings listening to it on enemy broadcasts and inventing English words. To meet German competition. British broadcasters had started airing the song themselves-an English version was sweeping England. Neutral Swedes and Swiss were crooning it. The song's original name was The Song of the Young Sentry. But millions, all over Europe, knew the catchy little ditty better as Lili Marleen...
Berlin radio reported last week that German occupation authorities near Smolensk had found the corpses of 10,000 Polish officers. These unfortunate men, purred Berlin, had been murdered by the Russians in the spring...
...commission does investigate, it will find many times 10,000 graves near Smolensk.* In Poland and in Russian territory which once was Polish, the Nazis have killed many, many times 10,000 Poles...
...Germans succeed in pinning the Russians before they reach Smolensk, the Red Army may still attempt more drives farther north. But in spite of those drives, the Germans will have succeeded on the northern front, as they had down south, in solidifying lines which had become dangerously liquid. Without Smolensk, the Russians cannot hope for really important gains in the north. When the lines and Russia's muddy earth are both solid again, then one side or the other will doubtless try, try again...
...Russians will have a hard time reaching Smolensk from the east and north before German counteroffensive reserves reach the area from the west and south. Between the Russian spearheads and the city lies a formidable system of German forts hinged on the town of Yartsevo. If those forts were to be backed up by German reserves moved up from the south, Russian chances of taking Smolensk would be small. "It is necessary," wrote New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker from Moscow, "to keep a tight check on the impulse to assume that Smolensk is directly threatened with assault...