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Gist of the correspondents' reports on the Smolensk front-and inference of the Russians' having permitted the tour at all -was that the central front had settled down and the Reds neither planned nor expected a real offensive any time soon in that area...
...Reds were apparently not tuckered out yet, because a force with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...
...years one had watched tanks clanking through the streets, and outside the villages one had seen the parachutes pouring down like crazy cotton snowflakes; one had accumulated tremendous faith in this power. But this power had been pushed back, now, deep into Russia, had been cut at Smolensk, cupped at Leningrad, driven even beyond the ancient Golden Gate of Kiev...
Official reports to government and Red Army organs indicated that a full scale counter-offensive was developing from the Novgorod area north of Lake Ilmen to the Desna River south of Smolensk...
...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...