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And Firestone will again demonstrate its ability to change over quickly from the materials of war to the products of peace. When that day comes, Firestone will be ready with a wider range of products of higher quality and of still greater value than any that have ever borne the name “Firestone.” MILITARY TYPE BARRAGE BALLOONS DIVIDED RIMS RIMS FOR TRUCKS AND BUSES HEAVY DUTY TUBES RUBBER AND METAL TANK TRACKS BEVERAGE CONTAINERS THE FOREIGN JOURNAL dt PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION m VOL. 20, NO. 12 WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER, 1943 RUSSIA AT WAR By FORMER AMBASSADOR W. H. STANDLEY Admiral, U. S. Navy, Retired IN the early spring of 1942 while we were flying What are the Russian qualities that have stood to Kuibyshev from Tehran, bad weather forced them in such good stead in the face of overwhelm¬ us down in Stalingrad. During our brief stay I ing hardships and adversity? Geographic influ¬ asked the Mayor of the city whether plans had been ences undoubtedly have an important bearing. The made for the evacuation of Stalingrad in case of a northern latitude of the Soviet Union, for exam¬ threat of German occupation. The Mayor looked ple, has developed in the Russians a stubborn for¬ at me with an expression bordering on surprise, titude in the face of adversity and a power of almost hostility. “No,” he replied with a certain resistance which has carried the Russian people amount of defiance, “we have made no such plans through the trials which they were destined to en¬ --we have no need of them. The Germans will dure in later centuries. There is also a deep-rooted never take our Stalingrad. Every man, woman and mystical patriotism, a love of Mother Russia, its child will die first.” very soil, birch forests, and rivers that is excelled During the ominous summer days of 1942 when in no country. There is a determination to cleanse the German armies were pressing deeper and deep¬ this Russian soil of the Nazi invader even if er into the Ukraine, and into the Volga valley, I every city is completely destroyed. There is an often recalled the Mayor’s words. Peter Kosyagin, ironclad discipline in every walk of Soviet life the Mayor, was almost wrong, and it was only that which, coupled with their determination, forces prac¬ supreme quality of bravery and tenacity that kept tically all foreigners in the Soviet Union to the the Nazis from gaining complete control of the city. opinion that no other people wage war as totally, as We visited Stalingrad last summer—a ghost city of exclusively as do the Russians. There is finally a rubble and ashes, completely destroyed and a terri¬ terrible bitterness against the Nazis and a rightful ble monument of the horrors of war. The Germans desire for revenge which has been engendered not had taken the city—at least most of it—but a small only by the treacherous German attack but also by segment here, an isolated island there, a few build¬ the wanton murder of civilians in the occupied ings elsewhere, or at least what was left of them, areas, by the deportation of Soviet citizens to forced all bristling with determined men, precluded the labor in Germany, and by the destruction of the Nazis from gaining complete control of the city. Soviet schools, museums, and hospitals. The Rus¬ As a German correspondent wired his paper — sians will never stop until the power of Hitler and “These cursed Russians don’t know when they are his henchmen has been utterly destroyed and until beaten.” the German threat to Soviet security has vanished. DECEMBER, 1943 617 During the last two years I have had occasion to engineers, the same tools and equipment in the out¬ watch the Russian people wage war—a most im¬ skirts of Kuibyshev. Its production had actually pressive manifestation. In Moscow, Kuibyshev, the increased over the Moscow output. When we had Urals, and in other parts of the Soviet Union I returned to Moscow in the spring of 1943, and the have visited industrial enterprises, steel mills, con¬ German threat to the capital had been removed by verted tractor factories, evacuated airplane plants that time, the original factory had given birth to and machine shops.