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...certain forces in this country are using these executions as the spearhead of an anti-Soviet campaign. While not wishing to supply everlasting justification of the Soviet policies. I feel that Mr. Passano is being unwise in lending his support to such a campaign. Conducted as it is by the Redbaiters, its sole purpose is to create dissension between ourselves and our fighting Soviet ally. John R. Shepley...
...master of Turkey with Saracoglu as his principal deputy. Tough, shrewd, brilliant Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, whose feigned tantrums pull him through many an unpleasant interview, remained as powerful as ever. The country's only recognized political party had seen to it that Publisher Yunus Nadi, spearhead of Axis propaganda in Turkey, was not re-elected to the Grand National Assembly...
Ready to move into this gap are the vast forces of the C.I.O. and A.F. of L., which could not afford to stand idly by while Lewis gained a political victory. Also ready to pour through the wall, at another point, is the farm bloc. Thus Lewis may spearhead a pitched battle against the Administration cost-of-living controls. For days, appeasement seemed to be the probable policy: indications were that the Administration might add 5% to the Little Steel formula in a strategic withdrawal. But as the week began the Administration firmed up: WLB voted to hold on hard...
MOSCOW--Russian tanks went into action against the German spearhead stalled in the central Caucasus yesterday and wreeked or crippled 40 enemy tanks in fierce battle which further cased the threat to the Caucasian oil riches, the Red Army reported today
...sector of the Nalchik plain massed German forces drove an armored spearhead into the Red Army positions, the Sunday midnight communique of the high command said, and "after bitter fighting the Soviet troops retreated to new positions, having caused heavy losses to the enemy...