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Soviet Russia is justly proud of its craggy-faced Marshal Semion Timoshenko, but Wales has put in a claim to half of him. One J. John, a schoolteacher of Crewkerne, England, wrote to a North Wales friend that the Marshal's father was really a Welsh technician, Charles Jenkins, who went to Russia 61 years ago with Schoolteacher John's grandfather to work in a factory at what is now Stalino...
...Year I nominate the Bald Eagle of the Steppes, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
Farther south in the Ukraine, Marshal Timoshenko, of whom much had been expected, was following through on the Rostov victory, driving the Germans farther back from the oil of the Caucasus. His troops fanned out for an attack on Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov...
...Germans had advanced on Rostov in a narrow column, the left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
...this maneuver Marshal Timoshenko had used a familiar Nazi technique. He had allowed the enemy to advance until it overreached itself, had then struck. He had not, however, followed through with the complementary Nazi technique-encircling and annihilating the imprudent force. The Germans, though humiliated, were at liberty to turn around, as promised, and see that international law is more carefully observed by the population of Rostov...