Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
Disperse for Battle. London sources last week reported that General Stern has no less than 60 divisions (about 800,000 men), including 30 armored brigades, in four groups along his winding, 2,100-mile border. Other estimates were that he had about half as many men; 1,200 to 1,500 planes. Whatever his force, whatever the strength that he has had to divert to the Hitler front, he must disperse his Asian armies to meet their peculiarly difficult problem of defense...
...several hundred miles inside the Russian border, is far from completion. Itagaki's invaders, attacking the Trans-Siberian, will also be assaulting Russian Asia's key cities: Chita, a junction point on the Trans-Siberian; Khabarovsk, a new factory center which is also the headquarters of General Stern's armies; Blagoveshchensk, now almost within shell range of the Japanese in extreme northern Manchukuo; and, well beyond the Far Eastern border, the new steel & oil city of Komsomolsk, pride of the young Russians who built...
...General Stern cannot hope to defend his whole line. Instead he has a string of strong points, some to be held against the Japanese. Thus, if & when the new war between Russia and Japan begins, it will be one of great initial advances for the Japs, hard & fast counterblows for the Russians...
...Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...