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...conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the ten movements, provided by scenes from World War II (climax: Stalingrad) and a warmhearted, slightly Wagneresque lullaby...
Guerrilla. In World War II, Khrushchev took charge of the mass guerrilla movement that scorched the black earth of the Ukraine in the Wehrmacht's rear, won the Stalingrad Medal for his services as a political commissar. At war's end he went back to the war-charred Ukraine with orders from the Kremlin to 1) revive its agriculture and heavy industry; 2) liquidate the Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Nazis. He succeeded on both counts. "Half the leading workers have been done away with," he boasted...
Holdfast's strategists had developed their plan after studying German tactics in the long retreat from Stalingrad (in which the Germans first used the word "hedgehog"), Britain's experiences with Rommel in Africa, and NATO Commander Matt Ridgway's own mobile defenses against enemy masses in Korea. The maneuvers were commanded by General Sir John Harding, a veteran of Britain's desert battles in World War II and a hedgehog pioneer. Neither General Harding nor anyone else suggested that NATO's present divisions (hopefully estimated at 47 by year's end) could actually stop...
...guns, gas masks and rifles, were ready in the square. That evening, Communists by the thousands tore loose with stones, iron bars, clubs, broken bottles and metal chairs there and at other salients-the Gare du Nord, the Gare de 1'Est and a Metro station appropriately named Stalingrad...
...citizens of a city that was all but destroyed by the Luftwaffe in November 1940, the survivors of England's Coventry felt a warm bond of sympathy for the survivors of Stalingrad, destroyed two years later. They formed a Coventry-Stalingrad Bond of Friendship Committee, invited people from Stalingrad to visit them. There was no response. The Friendship Committee faded out. Then, one day last week, Coventry's Socialist Mayor Harry Weston got a telephone call from the Russian embassy in London. Madame Tatiana Murashkina, deputy mayoress of Stalingrad, was in Britain and would like to visit Coventry...