“… The Soviet Army is counterattacking strongly in the Rzhev and Veliki Luki areas northwest and west of Stalingrad, and one by one they are forcing the German positions, so that the German Army as a whole is being besieged.… The Russian counterattacks employed five times the numerical strength of the Germans.… In the Caucasus campaign also any further advance of the German Army will be impossible.” In making this cogent analysis of the war in North Africa and Russia, Tokyo fails to mention a single word about the war in the Pacific. Nor has there been any mention to date of the reverses of
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