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...politicos waiting to see him. At his desk at the end of the long room he was alone. He considered the vast bloody picture puzzle of reports and rumors that he had been putting together all day. The war was going none too well. In the center, yes, Timoshenko was sharply counterattacking, the Germans were falling back. But in the north Voroshilov might soon be trapped in Leningrad. And in the south Budenny's defense of Kiev and Odessa was gravely threatened by new German eruptions east of the Dnieper. Aside from possibilities of more immediate catastrophes...
...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...
Knowing this, Marshal Timoshenko was last week heavily engaged in counterattacks, designed to prevent the Germans from getting rolling again in the weather. The Reds called his efforts merely local attacks, but the Germans paid respects to "strategic counter-actions" i.e., the real stuff...
Storm Cloud on the Volga. Russia showed last week that it was also worried about the political weather of the area behind Marshal Timoshenko's lines. In the heart of Russia, by the Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
Surveying these facts, Marshal Timoshenko told a correspondent last week...