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...Soviet note conferring Russian citizenship on all former inhabitants of East Poland, the Polish Government in Exile last week denounced the Polish Soviet Treaty of July, 1941 as unilateral and intimated that it expects Poland's post-war eastern frontier to be restored as of September, 1939. "Tass," Russia's official news agency, answered by charging Premier Sikorski and his refugee cabinet with the "imperialistic" desire to hold against their will the four million Russians put under Polish rule by a peace treaty of 1921. The Soviet organ also leveled an accusation at the Poles for their "Fascist-minded...
...Moscow's Tass said that Berlin had given Vichy permission to reinforce its North African garrisons with three new infantry divisions, a tank regiment, two artillery regiments and one air group...
...Russian news agency Tass reported this week that Vichy had given Germany 40 warships and "many" submarines that were under construction at the time of the armistice. Tass said that an agreement for gradually transferring a large part of the French Navy had long ago been reached...
This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa, 140 miles south of still-besieged Leningrad, Soviet troops were guided by a guerrilla named Ivan Grozny, who is known as "Ivan the Terrible." Guerrilla Grozny and his guerrillas cut communications, uprooted German mine fields, finally marched 25 miles through bitter cold and deep snow to help encircle the Germans...
Churches were closed in Kaunas and Vilna, markets suspended throughout Lithuania. Tass, Soviet News Agency, claimed a captured German medical report said that "100% of our soldiers (in one battalion) are more or less covered with lice" - not an incredible statement to men who remember World...