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...this dire emergency, Hitler appointed his tank expert, Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian, to take command of the whole Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical...
This week Tass, official Soviet news agency, announced a political crisis in Rumania. Communist and Social Democratic Parties were backing a "National Democratic Front" demand for a new government from which the Peasant and Liberal Parties (Rumania's two biggest) would be excluded...
...more times, five times in all, every hour up to midnight, the loudspeakers blared, the guns boomed, the rockets soared. By 10 o'clock Red Square was jammed. The sky was dark now, and the red, blue, green and orange rockets made, a better show-as if, said Tass the next day, "the palette of a magic painter had come alive on a gigantic canvas." Every Moscow paper had a leading editorial on the "Day of Five Salutes...
...they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets in the way of entertainment is an occasional sardonic cartoon -usually aimed at Fascism. He finds a back page largely filled with cut-&-dried foreign news from the official agency, Tass. The front-page formula rarely varies: a Stalin Order of the Day (prikaz) in the two left columns, plus another two columns on military operations (svodka). The two inside pages are devoted to feature articles from the front and to uplifting or critical reports from the collective farms and factories...
...Washington last week State Department correspondents chose their dates for invasion and paid $1 each into a pool, winner to take all. The Tass (Soviet) correspondent guessed April 20, the more cautious Reuters (British) correspondent Sept...