Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string of victories in the Ukraine and the Crimea. Hamstrung during the long retreat after Stalingrad by frantic orders from the Führer, he broke with Hitler, lived in retirement while the Allies smashed their way into Germany...
...small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions. In mid-1944 he headed the Soviet forces which ignominiously sat outside his "native" Warsaw while Polish patriots inside, having been signaled by the Russians to rise, were slaughtered by the Nazis...
Died. Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, 55, marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the defenders of Stalingrad; after long illness; in Moscow. Tolbukhin's army broke through the German lines in November 1942, completed encirclement of Paulus' German Sixth Army, later helped drive the enemy out of the southern Ukraine and the Balkans...
...Understand?" Beside the Anzio beachhead, war-ruined Genzano calls itself "Little Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church...
Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...