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Joseph Stalin ordered speedy preparations. He had Comrade Mayor Pronin address the citizens. Street-to-street plans were laid. Old women, small children and useless people were evacuated. "The breath of the front is strongly felt here," wrote Tass, official news agency. "A new line of defenses is being constructed. . . . People of the most varied professions have taken to the spade-women, weavers, streetcar drivers, students and teachers." Moscow changed within a week from capital into fortress...
Reporting by official and neutral news agencies was dreamy, unreal, ridiculously ironic. D.N.B. told of Alpine troops fighting on Ukraine's plains; Tass described Germans rushing into battle "in a drunken condition," Rumanians being pushed into battle at the bayonet's point; and though there had never been such vastnesses, the world's press was overfed with vignettes -a number of Russian peasants capturing three parachutists, two planes dropping eight bombs which killed a postman and burned two barns at Tammisaari, Finland...
...Tass denied that any negotiations were in progress. So did Ambassador Ivan Maisky in London. This was, quite possibly, literally true. A credible explanation of what was going on came from a German source in Stockholm. Said this informant...
...into German hands. One day last week an unknown young Russian diplomat, Alexander Mihailovich Alexandrov, said to have been chief of the Balkan Division of the Foreign Commissariat, turned up in Sofia as Counselor of Legation, reportedly charged with giving Boris moral support in refusing German demands. Another day Tass, the official news agency, issued a gruff statement: "If German troops really are present in Bulgaria and if the further dispatch of German troops to Bulgaria really is taking place, then all this occurred and is occurring without the knowledge and consent...
...become important, especially if the Burma Road should be cut again. In winter the frozen, level tundra is ideal, since vehicles need not follow a narrow bombable ribbon. Much of the way runs through Russian territory, which the Japanese dare not touch. For understandable reasons, the Soviet news agency Tass denied that there was any such supply route...