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...This attack need not be the only one-or the main one-planned by the Germans this summer. If it is, the world will know that the Wehrmacht, resigned to the defensive in Russia, is merely trying to improve its own positions and weaken the Red Army before winter or before Russia strikes with the U.S. and Britain...
What these events portend-a final, all-out attempt to knock out the Red Army, or a more limited effort to weaken it-the world may not know for weeks. In the meantime, the Russians will look to the Germans' other front, the front where Russia's Allies had yet to move this week...
...then you are merely parrying the blows that weaken your country. You are not beating them...
...front, the Russians struck last week, and they were massed to strike elsewhere along its length. But the tone of Stalin's order, Moscow dispatches and the nature of last week's battles indicated that these were precautionary blows with a double intent: to jar and weaken the Germans before they could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they had no second front when they thrust the Germans...
...only if its adherents are also its champions. And they will be champions only if they fully comprehend the rightness of the cause for which they are fighting. Moral relativism--one man's opinion is as good as anyone else's--is attacked as an enemy weapon which will weaken the democratic front...