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According to latest dispatches, the citizens of Stalingrad have spontaneously written letters to their local newspaper urging that their city be rechristened. Signs bearing the present name of the city have reportedly been taken down from a railroad station, a major hotel, and other public places...
...services produced their due reward. When the Germans finally attacked their "ally." Stalin named Ulbricht a top member of the National Committee for Free Germany, which organized anti-Hitler propaganda campaigns in German prisoner-of-war camps, broadcast Moscow's message by loudspeaker to the Nazi divisions around Stalingrad. The National Committee was no great success in winning over the enemy. But it did serve as a readymade nucleus for Communist administration when the time came to move into postwar Germany. When Hitler's armies collapsed, one man was the logical choice to carry the Red flag into...
...career. "West Berlin has now become-as never before -the great testing place of Western courage and will," he said, in a paragraph that should be long remembered. "I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any dangerous spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. We do not want to fight-but we have fought before. And others in earlier times have made the same dangerous mistake of assuming that the West was too selfish and too soft and too divided to resist invasion...
...force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech, insisted that the West had exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev, who could well remember Stalingrad,* well understood Jack Kennedy's pointed reference to the beleaguered city, and he might indeed think twice about his intransigence, and suggest negotiations at which he could save face while backing down. The U.S. is eager to help him to that conclusion; last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...September 1942, the German Sixth Army attacked and occupied the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga River, dislodged all but a vastly outnumbered body of Russian troops on the river's west bank. Both sides suffered staggering casualties, but the Russian rear guard held on bravely until reinforcements arrived. In a midwinter counterattack, the Russians trapped the German army, which surrendered in February 1943, and the course of the war turned...