The brown leaves that drifted to earth in London's parks and along the arbored avenues of Washington fell more slowly than the hopes of men in those capitals last week. As if Moscow were the last fortress in the path of Hitler's armies, millions of men who are Moscow's allies surrendered to despair.
They forgot that they had half expected Hitler to be in Moscow three months ago, that many of them had more than half hoped he would be. They forgot that their rising optimism throughout the summer had been caused in part by Hitler's failure to realize their...
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