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...would make little difference whether a unilateral Russian policy is imposed direct from Moscow or through the Ukrainian or White Russian Soviet Republics. Nor is the problem solved by the proposal to compensate Poland for the loss of much of the country to which she has strong historical and cultural claims by giving her territories to the north and west, where her claims are infinitely less. That would mean two violations of the spirit of the Atlantic Charter instead of one. Whatever is done should be done for the sake of a just and permanent peace-not by robbing Peter...
Attack. A fortnight ago it was relatively quiet along the 500-mile reach of the Ukrainian front. But the peace was deceptive. By night Red scouts wormed their way across No Man's Land. In staff dugouts, officers had charted the position of every German battery, every pillbox and tank trap...
From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
...Happily he talked of J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley, of cabbages, and kings, and strategy. The newsmen were impressed: this tall, athletic man was a hero, one of Russia's ablest tank tacticians. Stooping over a map, he explained how the troops of the Second Ukrainian Front made a narrow breach in the German defenses, converted it into a major triumph...
...breach was widened. This time, however, the entire mass of our tanks was thrown into the breach. . . . Then, at once, they spread out behind the enemy lines. . . . Part of them reinforced our flanks; the main force continued to push forward to meet the tank forces of the First Ukrainian Front...