Word: timoshenkos
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General headquarters of the Red Central Front were in a little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer...
...worked, Marshal Timoshenko often looked at the barometer. He knew the unpredictability - and the importance - of Russian weather...
...Middle. On the most important front, Marshal Timoshenko's center, a period of beautiful crisp days was about to begin. Like New England's summer, this is what the Russians call babie lieta, " the peasant woman's summer." Here September and the first woman's two or three weeks of October should be much better fighting time than July and August...
...Struggle Against Cowards." The greatest piece of news the Germans had all week was issued by Comrade Stalin. He announced that he himself would take over from Marshal Semion Timoshenko the post of Commissar for Defense - i.e., Commander in Chief. The office of political commissar in the Army was reinstated...
...were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only in the way it is done...