{The conflict has altered completely in character since the participation of Soviet Russia and, indirectly, of the United States, That the war in Russia has lasted longer than most observers believed 4s due not to their over-estimation of Germsn strength but to their under-estimation of Russian power. Tactical ability and strength of mechanical armament are no longer, as previously, monopolized by one of the two opposing sides, but are relatively evenly distributed among the two warring factions.
e "Asahi" particularly stressed the importance of the Soviet "scorched earth" policy, and asserted that
Army must be attributed to the "rethe resistance put up by the Red markable moral strength of the Stalin regime", "As long as the German objective remains to overthrow the Red regime, the latter will resist even if it has to make a mass of ruins out of the whole country," the paper concluded.—Havas Telemondial.
Japan believes that access toj those materials is vital to her continued existence, She would be willing to fight for them if she can obtain them in no other way.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.