MOMENTOUS DAYS
Stalingrad's Stand May Be
Decisive
LONDON, October 4.
The 80 most critical 'days forecast by the Minister of Production, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, last July, are lip tomorrow.''
The "Sunday Chronicle" comments: "Indeed, these -days have been momentous. The last part of them has been marked by the heroic, and it may be., the decisive stand of^ Stalingrad. Elsewhere on the far-flung front of the world war we have seen the first momentum of) the United Nations to take the initiative. Hitler says that the Germans will fight to the end. They fought to the end last time. The Russians at Stalingrad, and the British and Americans in the west, are making sure that the end will come—swiftly, suddenly, and inevitably."
year in output of planes, tanks, guns, mortars, machine-guns, rifles, and ammunition. This is reported in the Moscow paper "Pravda," which says that plane and tank production in September was 6 per cent, above schedule and a great deal more than the August output. "Pravda" pays a tribute to the metallurgists, who have kept up supplies of high-grade material despite great difficulties due to the loss of the Don basin and the Dnieper metallurgical district.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 5
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