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Show HITLER FACES A TWO-FRONT BATTLE IN SPRING The great war has entered its fourth, and we suspect, last year, with every indication that Hitler will find himself, before next summer's sum-mer's campaign, between two fronts, one in Russia and the other in the western part of Europe. The fighting that has taken place thus far in 1942 has been a succession succes-sion of local victories for the Axis nations but slowly the strength of the United Nations begins to assert as-sert itself upon the fields of battle. The Red army of Russia has made the greatest single contribution to the defeat of the enemy by its intelligent in-telligent strategy and courageous resistance. It is impossible to over-emphasize the value of continued Soviet resistance. For once, Hitler overreached over-reached himself when he attacked the Russians, who have stubbornly stubborn-ly "fought the enemy" for more than fourteen months, without permitting per-mitting repeated losses and heavy blows to weaken their will to win. Many of us have been misled by the headlines and radio warnings that the fall of this city, or another, an-other, was fatal to the Soviet army. Not one of these fears has been well-founded. Cities and territory are relatively unimportant so long as armies fight and the Red troops refuse to accept defeat. The Russians will be fighting when the campaign begins next spring, which is the worst news that Hitler has had since the last World War when his Ludendorff went down in abject surrender. Der Fuehrer may score some spectacular spec-tacular gains but his fate is sealed if the Red army maintains its fighting coherency through the coming winter. |