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This week the Germans repeated history. At four deep harbors direly needed by the Allies they fought from redoubts deepened, strengthened to withstand modern bombing. In the fortresses the Germans showed the highest and lowest in Nazi battle morale...
...Public opinion has become inflamed against our union. . . . Our union cannot survive if the nation and our soldiers believe that we are obstructing the war effort. Either we set our house in order at once, cease all wildcat strikes, or we face an attack no union can withstand...
Faster. Thin, shy Sergio Osmena, vice president of the Philippines, dismissed talk of a long war in the Pacific. Said he: "I don't believe the Japs can last long after Germany is defeated. The combined might of the United Nations will be more than Japan can withstand...
...this time audacity's returns were poor. Vatutin had overextended himself, as he did in another crucial offensive west from Kharkov last spring. Without artillery support, the cavalry could not withstand strong German counterattacks. Last week it abandoned Zhitomir, in the first major reverse in the Red Army's great, 18-week offensive. The retreat was has tened by fierce German blows at the Russian flank east of Zhitomir...
Fellow officers called him "the Bolshevik." In 1939 he was relieved. The considered view of U.S. Army Intelligence was that Russia could withstand the Wehrmacht only a few weeks. Colonel Faymonville's contrary views were not popular. To the Army's amazement Russia did not collapse. Harry Hopkins overrode the War Department and had Faymonville sent back to Moscow...