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Peril in the North. The Soviet High Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...constellation Leo becomes Russia -"one end of Leo is a perfect sickle and the other end is much more like a hammer than any part of a lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There...
...have talked with Stalin say that he knows more than most Washington and London officials about Allied performance, personalities and weaknesses. He has on the end of his blunt tongue the exact dates of and reasons for the fall of Bataan, Corregidor, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rangoon. He says: "Timoshenko is my George Washington" (because Washington retired from Philadelphia to Valley Forge but still won the Revolutionary War); and: "Zhukov, he is my George B. McClellan-except that he has never lost a battle" (McClellan always hollered for more men, more weapons, more supply, more cavalry-but he lost the Seven...
...another is pushing down the railway below Millerovo toward Rostov, is Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin, 42. Another veteran of the Czarist Army and the Revolution, Vatutin was an Army commander in the Ukraine when the Germans invaded it. He skillfully retreated from the Dnei-per Bend, then helped Marshal Timoshenko launch successful counterattacks...
...stead, directing the Red Army's counteroffensives to relieve Stalingrad, was aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like...