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Winter Is a Traitor. Since November and Stalingrad, the Russians had been moving forward. Winter had enlisted in the Russian services of supply, which depended, in winter, on three things-rails, wheeled vehicles, and above all, snow vehicles; snows had helped sleighs, had favored horseflesh over motors, the wooden ski over the steel halftrack. The Russians had learned how to move mechanized armies through the snow. The Russians' hope, they knew, was to keep moving and to keep the Germans off balance. This they could do-and did impressively well -until they had to pause to regroup their forces...
Last week the Red Army greatly improved its chances to win the war against Germany, greatly lessened the Germans' chances to come back this spring and summer. What had happened in south Russia, after the relief of Stalingrad, was now happening in the north. The Germans were retreating along most of a 700-mile front from Leningrad to Orel...
Strategically, the Russian victories last week were as big as any that have been won in the entire winter offensive, save that at Stalingrad. But comparatively few German troops were killed or captured. This suggested that the Germans had previously withdrawn the bulk of their forces, and that they were still "shortening the line," sacrificing precious geography in order to save their armies...
...Break a Silence. Last fall Franklin Roosevelt sent Pat Hurley as his observer to Russia. Grey, ramrod-backed General Hurley made a hit with Stalin, who let him go to the Stalingrad front-the first foreigner so trusted. In a bomber with two other American officers, General Pat was flown over the front where the Russians were completing one of the most complicated encircling operations in military history. Pat & friends saw it all in detail. Later the Hurley party toured the front in a jeep, lived at field headquarters and had the best of Russian hospitality and cooperation. In return...
...constellation Leo becomes Russia -"one end of Leo is a perfect sickle and the other end is much more like a hammer than any part of a lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There...