Word: volgas
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...safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn, cut the Red army and Russia from its Caucasian oilfields and enormously complicate Russian supply problems from outside...
Perhaps Moscow, in its need, accented the peril beyond its immediate actuality. Perhaps the Red Army did have great reserves of troops beyond the Volga and in the Caucasus. But the visible fact last week was that Moscow censors permitted the most direct indications yet on record that the Red Army was badly drained, that only the foolhardy would count on the exhaustion of Germany's reserves before Russia's reserves were expended...
...army's southwestern anchor. Above all, the Germans had not yet crossed the Don at its eastern bend, where it would be most difficult and most urgent for them to cross. And, until they did cross and conquer the tough alley between the Don and the Volga, Stalingrad was safe from direct land assault- though not from air attack...
TIME'S Correspondent Walter Graebner, after a trip up the Volga into Russia, filed the following dispatch...
This week Rostov is again in peril. Timoshenko is outnumbered in material, even in men on most of his fronts. In great peril was the land of the Volga and the Caucasus, which Timoshenko had called the decisive area of Russia. But the decision had not yet been reached, and the world could easily guess what the stolid, big-boned peasant from Bessarabia was saying to his harried, divided, tired and retreating troops in the ruined fields of the Don. He was saying: "Brothers, our country is in your hands. The outcome depends on us alone...