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...blamed because nature gave it no horns or sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...
...centers were again in or nearly in Russian hands. The threat against the highly strategic rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails connecting Murmansk with Leningrad, Leningrad with Moscow, Moscow with the Donets Basin and the Black...
Scrabbling. His greatest efforts were flung at Moscow's flanks (see map, p. 24). Starting from a line (Nov. 17), the strongest previous blows of which had been struck directly opposite Moscow, he skirted south of the hard core of resistance at Tula to drive straight east as far as Skopin; then cut south of another hard core at Kalinin to drive east to Dmitrov. His intention seemed to be to develop a huge encirclement of the capital...
...several weeks the Russians had been building formidable defenses on Moscow's flanks at Kalinin and Tula. The German drive was designed to circumvent, and later destroy, those two key areas of defense. One German column drove between Moscow and Kalinin. This week it reached a point 30 miles from the capital. Another column skirted Tula to the south and then swung north across the Oka River...
BERLIN--German panzer armies slashing into both Moscow flanks have captured Klin, 51 miles to the northwest, and 14 towns "lying to the rear of the Soviet lines and fortification" in the Tula area anchoring the capital's southern defenses, Nazi sources claimed tonight...