CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS RELATING TO THE USSR PART II

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES Research and Analysis Branch R & A No. 2915.2 CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS RELATING TO THE USSR Part II USSR in the War 22 June 1941 ? 2 September 1945 Washington 25 September 1945 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES Research and Analysis Branch R & A No. 2915.2 CHRONOIOGY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS RELATING TO THE USSR Part II. USSR in the War, 22 June 1941 -- 2 September 1945 Washington 25 September 1945 Declassified in Part_- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 FOREWORD Scope This ChronologY covers the period from the establishment of diplomat c re lat; ons between the Unit ted States and the Sovi et ?Uni on to the end of World War TI. It is di vi ded into two parts: Part I. From Ameri can Recognition of the Sovi at Uni on-to the Sovi et-German Conflict, 10 October 1933 - 21 June 1941; and Part II. USSR in the War, 22 June 1941 - 2 September 1943. Work ; s already in progress in the prepara- tion of a thi rd Part, coveri ng the post-war period. Arrangement ? Part I: For reasons of convenience to the users and economy of space, Part I lists the events of a gi yen day alphabetically under descriptive captions assigned to each tern. Events i nvolvi ng the ? re lati ons of the Sovi at Union th other countri es are generally entered under the names : of countx os involved. Internati anal conferences and conven- tions have been listed under thei r offi ci al desi gnations -wherever possible. Sovi et internal affairs have most fre-. quently been. placed under the caption Sovi et Union or under convenient catch-word titles. Part Whi. le . the above arrangement appeared adequate to cover tra-fh Internal and external events during the years of increasing Soviet partici potion n International affairs,' the complexities of the war years seemed to make a more elaborate arrangement advi sable. A four column divIsIon was made. In the .first column are liSted ? the mi litary highlights of the war. To the second column were? consigned the general I nternational events in whi ch the Soviet Union parti el pated or had an interest. The third column records the development of Ameri can-Soviet lati ons. Occasi onal use was made of the devi cc of spread; ng Some International gather ing.s or undertakings across columns two and three. In the fourth column? the more important Soviet Internal developments,'? and speeches loy leading Soviet offi als (Including those on the War and world events) are Indicated. Sources large variety of sources has been us ed in comp; ling the data for th; s Chronology. For all parts the Bulletin of Inter- national News., the Department of :tate Bulletin, the Research Bulieti n of the Sovi et Uni on (wi th I ts veri ous conti nr.17.774737)-, A. J. Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs,, and W. Wheeler-Bennettiments on International Affai Ts, were basi c references, supplemented as needed from Soviet and other sources. For the war years in Part II extensive use waS made of the offi ci al Soviet cornpi lati on on foxi gn re lati cns, Vneshnya.ya poll tika Sovetskogo Soyliza v period oteche stvennoi voi ny, Volume i,to 31 December 1943. This was supplemented for ? 151/1 and 1945 by .chron.ologies Issued in War and the Working Class and its successor, New Times. Among non-Russian compen- diums steady use ? was made of Facts on File, the 'issues of the New York Times, and the ? volumes on Te War (First Year -through urtl-7Year ) publi shed by Edgar Mcinni s. From -t-Tme to time ? several other publications and monographs were consulted for special topi cs , controverSi al items, and dates in dspute. Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Limi. tat on s In this Chronology . speci al attention was devoted to the fore; gn relati ons of the Sovi et _Un i on. For the great profusion of domesti c developments a selective appreabh had to be made. The cri teri on used generally was the m.pact of a gi ven internal event upon the outside world. ? Lack of time- and personnel, precluded the preparati on of an Index for the Chronology. It is hoped that the I ntroductory words at the beginni ng of most entries wi ll serve as ? a sub- sti tute, although recognizably nadequate, for an Index. Despite the care and ti me expended on this Chronology, the partici pati on of several I ndi IT', duals n the work of com- p; hit; on and the lack, of time for thorough editing made it - impossible to achi eve a complete consistency n the ? style of pre sentati on. It has been occasionally necessary to I nclude , references to unveri fi able pre Ss accounts of events affecti ng dplomatic hi story. ? The words "report" and "allegati-on" have been used to note thi s condi ti on. As far as posslble, events are listed under the exact' date of the i r occurrence. 'Allen thi s could not be establi shed with certainty, 'the event was entered under the date. of publ; cati on, thi s di-sti ncti on bei ng made clear whenever possible. In all likeli hood there are omiSsi ons and errors in thi s compi lati on, in spite Of considerable efforts made to achieve accuracy.- The sUpplyi ng. of emti ssi ons and the. correction of mistakes would be welcome. 111 ? Future Installments Should the publication of the se two parts of the ,Chrono- logy reult In ?a signi fi cant extensi en of the considerable use to whi ch t has already been put in manuScri pt f crm the publication of further parts will be possi ble, coveri ng the period beginning th 3 September 1945, and based upon a Chronology of daily events whi ch i s currently being compiled. Th; s Chronology, revi sed and edited n accordance with the longer perspe-ative then aVai lable, could subsequently be brought together into a third Part at an appropr,iate time. In preparation for this, the compi lers would be glad to receive any suggesti ens. for im- provement whi ch users of the fi rst two parts may wi 01 to make. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Part II. us,sR IN THE WAR. 22 June 1941-2. September 1945 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1941 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS ,AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIEI-INTERNAL AFFAIRS JUNE . 22 German and Rumanian armies invaded Germany, Italy,. Rumania declared war. Russia at dawn. . on the USSR.. ?Nazi planes bombed Kiev, otC.' Slovakia severed diplomatic relations With the USSR. Gt, Britain: Prime Minister Churchill's radio declaration of British policy in the new situation created by - Hitler's attack on Russia. Brest Litovsk captured by Germans._ Poland: SIkorski offered to resume Leningrad bombed for the first- friendly relations with the USSR. time, Turkey decided to maintain strict neutrality In the Soviet-German? conflict. Slovakia declared war on the USSR. ? : 'Kaunas and Vilna captured by Germans. Gt. Britain: Eden's speech In Parliament announced that USSR had accepted the British offer of aid. Hungary severed diplomaticrelatIons. France: U.S. Ambassador Leahy' called on the USSR Ambassaaor Bogomolov for the second time since outbreak of Soviet-German ward Japan stated she would faithfully fulfill her treaty obligetiOng'to both parties In thekSovietGerman war. Acting Secretary. Welles stated State Department's reaction te the German attack on the USSR: -"Any rallying of the forces op- posing HitlerisM will redound to the benefit of our awn defense and security." The Export-Import Bank stepped -the'issue of credit to Finland. President Roosevelt announced that the United States was going to'give all aid to. Russia. Russian credit released. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Molotov broadcast from Moscow stating that Germany attacked Russia. Supreme Soviet ukazes on martial law and military tribunals. Supreme Soviet ukaz on mobili- zation. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 2 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS 25 Soviet planes bombed Helsinki . ' 26 nsk drive begun by Germans. 27 28 AMERICAN-SOVIET . RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Finland announced state of war Iran notified by USSR that German agents were preparing for revolt to put Iran on the side of the Axis.. Iran and Turkey declared neutrality in Soviet-German conflict. Denmark severed diplomatic relations wi th the. USSR. Hungary declared war on the USSR. British military mission and Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in MosCow. Neutral; ty .Act not to be invoked by the President against Russia ( Sumner We Ile p ) The Treasury Departthent released .39 mi. 11_1 on.; dollars in Soviet ? Funs'whiohhad been frozen by. Ejcecutive Order of June 14. Ambassador Oumansky received .assurances from Secretary Hull that Soviet requests for aid would be given favorable consideration. Albania announced state of war with the USSR.. China: New Foreign Minister Quo declared' n Chungking that the "Russo-German war had greatly clarified the whole international situation" and stated Chi nal s readiness to work with her friends. Japan, Italy: Ambassador TakekaWa in:- formed V. Molotov of assuming charge of Italian interests in the USSR. Supreme Soviet ukazes on changes In draft law and changes of ?worki ng hour S in industry. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Issued a decree per- ng di rectors of industry to establish oblIgatory overtime - work. All vacation leaves were cancelled. Vice Comm- ssar of Foreign Affairs Lozovsky declared Nail planes violated Russian border 324 times before the invasion. An ukaz Issued to collect all radio, victrola and television sets for the duration. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS ,AMRICANrSOVIET,RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JUNE 29 Germans reported encircling 2 Soviet armies east of Bialystok. 30 Germans .captured Lwow (cf. L July) and Llbau. JULY 1 Riga taken by Germans. Lwow evacuated by Russians (cf. 30 June). 2 "Battle of the Frontier": Germans' announced the destruction of Soviet armies in the Bialystok- Vilna-Minsk triangle. 3 Sweden reporte&to*represent Soviet interests in Berlin., Vichy France severed, diplomatic relatiens with the USSR. Free lerench: DeGaulle representative in London informed Maisky that the Free French backed the USSR. Australia: Minister of Foreign Affairs 'stated that an appointment to the Russian consulate would be welcomed.. Germany: Soviet Embassy staff left Berlin. Ambassador Steinhardt conferred for more than an hour with the Foreign Commissar V. I. Molotov. -Soviet Ambassador Oumansky made first official appeal for material aid from. the United States. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Acting Patriarch Sergei pledged . support of the Orthodox Church to the Nation's war effort. Stalln named chairman of Soviet Defense Council. Leningrad City Soviet decreed conscription, of all able-bodied ? civillanS for defense work. State Committee of Defense estab- lished by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Sovnarkom decree on compulsory pre- , paredness for anti-aircraft defense. State Committee of DefenSe order on the organization of three army commands, Northwestern, Western, and Southwestern. Lozovsky announced in Moscow that: the declarations of President Roosevelt, Col, Knox, and Sumner . Welles had called forth the . greatest satisfaction in Russia... Stalin's radio address ordering. scorched earth policy and a system Of guerIlla warfare,. Supreme Soviet ukaz onwar_taxes.. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 19)41 MILITARY DEVELOPYENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS . AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS JULY . ?4, 5 6 Berezina River crossed by.Germans.j !.Dnieper River reached by Germans -. east of Minsk. .Gt. Britain: Eden in a speech at Leeds promised full military and . economic aid to.the .Soviets. China: Chungking government revealed MoscOw-radloed,)4,duiT.greetings- to the United States (cf. 11 July). U.S, refused to.take over Soviet representation.In Vichy ,and French representation in Moscow. 8 Cernauti taken by GerMans and Rumanians. Russies assurances of continued help. Russian Red Cross and Red Crescent,prote against German bombings of hospitals... Afghanistan deolared. neutrality in German-Soviet conflict. Poland: Beginning of Soviet- Polish talks. Gt. Britain: Oil experts arrived in MOscoW to.join the British Economic ssl on. Soviet military mission headed by Gen. Golikov arrived in London. -Sir Stafford Cripps called on Stalin. st to the International Red Cross Gt. Britain:. Soviet military mission con- ferred with Eden, DIT11, and Margesson. British Ministry of Economic Warfare announced that Britain had complet- ed arrangements for 'supplying war materials to the USSR. Ambassador OUmansky and Amtorg officials conferred with Under-secretary Welles about supplies. SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Ambassador Steinhardt called on Molotov, Vyshinsky and Lozovsky. Lozovsky denied German reports of the sale of Kamchatka and the Soviet Far Est to U.S. Lozovsky announced formation of a.-"People's Army" number- ing millions. "Moscow IS fully prepared for air raids". Supreme Soviet ukaz on rumor mongering. , LitVinov broadcast in 4oscow urging that the British.sheuld make certain that "Hitler should not have a moment's respite while Russia is bear- ing the brunt of the struggle." Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPPENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELITTIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 10 11 Vitebsk captured by Germans. 12 ? "Stalin Line" claimed broken by Germans (cf. 8 .August). 13 14 Novograd Volynsk captured by ' Germans. Finland: Gen. Mannerheim stated war.. aim to conquer all Karelia. Finland published Blue-White Book on Soviet-Finnish relations. , Gt. Britain: Sir Stafford Cripps .had a second conference with Stalin. British-Russian mutual assistance agreement signed in Moscow, Japan: Soviet Ambassador Smetanin called on Yosuke Matsuoka, Ambassador Oumansky called on Presiden?"Rbosevelt. Sumner Welles,dened Japanese reports of American attempts to secure bases in Siberia. President Roosevelt replied to President Kalinin't Independ- ence- Day greetings,. stating that the American?people."are bound with strong ties of historic friendship to the Russian people". Germany: Berlin announced exchange:of- Soviet and German missions but stated 50 Russians were still held pending return of several German. . SovietH Union denied German request for recog- nition of several hospital ships on - the Baltic. .Marshals Voroshilov, 'Timoshenko, and Budenny placed in command of the Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev fronts. Lozovsky expressed hope that occupation of ?Iceland was not an isolated step but one of-a series of blowb at Hitler. Vice Foreign Commissar Lozovsky stated that the : Russo-British pact Mnde the U.S.. a partner of Russia. Ambassador Oumansky's third - . ,meeting with Undersecretary 1Welles since the outbreak.: of ? war. The publication of Soviet. Embassy news bulletin announced. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 4?11. DATE ? 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS_ AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 15 16 .Smolensk capture claimed by Germans (..cf. AugUst). Tallinn captured by,Germans (cf. 2 September). Kishinev captured. Kiev Capture (wrongly) claimed by Germans. ?End Of the 26-day "Battle of the Frontier" (cf. 22 June) and be- ? ginning of the 2i month ? "Battle of Smolensk" (cf. 1 October). ?Gt. . Britain: Prime Minister Churchilr ?stated the USSR a British "ally" 711nder-pact. Rumania: Vice Premier announced sepa- rate administration of Bessarabia' pending removal of last traces of Bolshevism. Czechoslovakia and Poland: Lozovsky announced that Russia "favors in principle" the restoration of full liberty to the two countries.,; Czechoslovakia: Soviet Embassy in London announced accord with Czecho- sloArakia-regarding exchange of diplo- matic representatives and "common -struggle against Hitlerite Germany". The junior personnel of the . U.S.. Embassy lh Moscow moved to Kazan (Cf. 9 September). Rationing of foodstuffs ord-? ered by Moscow Soviet. Ambassador Mai sky stated In London that that should Moscow fall, Russia would fight on from beyond the Urals. Supreme. Soviet ukaz on the or- ganizatien of organs of poll.- tical propaganda and Intro- duction of the institution .of military'commissars,in the. Red Army. Rationing extended to Leningrad. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - DATE. 19/4 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERKL 'FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS' JULY 18 Czech-Russian agreement for mutuaLaid and support signed,in London. Pre- vision for the formation of CzeCh military units .on Soviet soil In- cluded. Japan protested Russia's establishing 'danger zones" in the Pacific. Ambassador Smotanin visited the Japanese Foreign Office. YugcslaVia: Gavrilovich arriVed in Moscow to resume post as Minister (cf. 25 March). Supreme Soviet ukazesap pointed Stalin as Defense Commissar In place Of Marshal Iran: Gt. Britain and the USSR made Timoshenko,. and appointing.. representations to the Iranian Marshal TigIOShenko'ViCd-De government demanding suppression of fense COmmissar. - -German agents. 20 Dniester crossed by Germans. Supreme Soviet ukaz combining Commissariats of Home Affair's and National Security into the "United NKVD" underj.,. Beria. 21 Smolensk sector: Germans an- . Stalin announced-as Commander- nounced trapping two .n-Chief of the Rea Army. Russian armies. Lozovsky made :public captured 22 -German military documents indicating plans for chemical? warfare., Supreme Soviet ukaz instituting war corimissars in the Red Navy. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1941 GENERAL ,FOREIGN RELATIONS- AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS 8OVIET -INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 23 4 Murmansk: Offensive begun by Russians. 27 Smolensk sector: Vice Commissar Lozovsky announced that the -Russians were "winning the battle of-Smolensk" (cf. 17 July; . 1 October). .28 Gt. Britain: ,Gen. Golikov returned to London after trip to Moscow. . Turkey: Lozovsky announced that Turkish government was being informed concern- ing captured German documents indicat- ing planned surprise attack on Turkey. Gt. Britain: Exchange of letters between Stalin and Churchill reported in London asked for additional aid including other action than air raids, Churchill replying that extent of British aid depended on American aid to Britain. Gt. Britain reported to have protested to Iranian government on Germans there (cf. 31 July). Bulgaria: Vyshinsky denied Bulgarian claims of Soviet parachute landings. Sweden asked by Soviet government' to intervene with Finland to per- mit departure of Russian 'diplomats. Turkey: Ankara reported that Stalin had disclaimed designs on Dardan- elles in a letter to Ismet Inba. Finland:-Lozoky Stated Finn6c:reated difficulties in exchange of diplotats. Soviet military mission headed by General Golikov arrived in. Washington and conferred with Underecretari relies and General Marshall. Harry L. Hopkins declared in London that the U.S. was de- termined to give all possible ad ? to the USSR. Soviet military mission conferred with Dean Acheson. Welles revealed mission's purpose as coordination and placing of orders for military supplies. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 9 DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS . . -AMERICAN7S0VIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS -JULY 29 AUGUST 2 Poland: Premier Si kor ski stated 1n London that the Poll sh nation would ? not hesitate' to come to an agree- ment of collaborati on 7v1 th Russia- ' on honorable, just terms. ? Poland-: Russo-Poll sh agreement for coopera- tion, ending the state of war between the two countrie s sped in London.- .Pro si ons included formation of Poll_ sh army on. Soy.' et soil and amnesty to Poll sh nati Onals Germany.: DNB announced the establishment' of Gorman ci vi 1 adMini strati On in "Ostland" (area south of DVina). Iran' 8 reply on Germans reported " -unsatisfactory to 13/.1 tain (cf. 27 July). Harry L. Hopkins Conferred with Stalin ? n the presence of Ambassador Ste 1 nhardt and Molotov .on 1 ncreasing U.S. d to ?Russi. a. SoViet m1tary mi ssi on and Marshal Budenny .ssued a man!! - ? Ambassador Oumansky saw festo urgi ng Ukrnn ans to Presi dent Roosevelt. joi n the gueri 116 bands. Lozovsky stated that the vsitsdemonstrated U.S. deferral nation to aid nati one struggling agal nst Fascism. Commercial agr.eement of 6 August . 1937, renewed by identical - notes betwoen the Acting Secre- tary Sumner Welles and the A.mba s sad or Ouman sky. All economi c assistance practi cable pledged by the U.S. to the USSR n a second exchange of notes in Washngton. Harry L. .Hopkins left Moscow. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ? - 10 - DATE . MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1924 . GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS --SOVIET -INTERNAL AFFAIRS -AUGUST - 3' 4 Approximate beginning of the "Ukrainian Campaign" (cf. 22 November). 5 Kholm and Belaya Tserkov captured by Germans. Approximate beginning of the. Leningrad offensives by Germans - (cf. 15 November). .Poland: Izvestia objected to a,state- ment by General Sikorski that the 1939 boundaries, Of Polish state.. could - could not be questioned. China.: Chungking reported SOT-let pilots, planes, artillery, gaso- -'" 15 ne and muni tions en route. to Chi na. - Japnnt. Lozovsky denied reports of Soviet-Japanese:border tension and of alleged Soviet-Chinese con7 ference. in Chita (cf.' 27, August). Soviet Ambassador Smetanin confer- ed with the JapaneSe Foreign Minis- ter Toyoda. Greece, Norway.: Diplomatic relations ? established by the USSR with the governments'in exile of Norway and Greece in London. Turkey Ankara reported assurance by British Ambassador that no agree- ? ment would be entered into With USSR on postwar spheres of influence wh oh weill4 infringe on Turkish interests. Renewal Of commercial agreement . (2 August) ratified by the Sovnarkom. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : ? ? 11 - CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 . DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS? GENERAL FOREIGN RELLTIONS' AVERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS 1941 AUGUST 6 Leningrad front: Ostrov, Porkhov German note to Iran threatening rup- Presidential proclamation of Pskov taken by Germans. ture.of. diplomatic relations if Commercial.lgreement of British .and Soviet fleets reported Germans are expelled. 2 August.,,..? in contactin/Torthern waters Poland: General .Anders appointed . Treasury Department unfroze operating jointly against Commander ofsa PoliSh army to be Soviet orders pending at Germany.. rd ed in, Russia; GeneralSyzysZko- ' the outbreak of war. Bohusz named Chief of Polish Mili- 7 8 Ukraine front: Korosten taken by Germans. ? Berlin bombed for the first time by Soviet I,Tr Force. Soviet summary of six weeks of war denied existence of "Stalin line" (cf. 12 July), claimed German losses of 14500,000 against Soviet losses of 600,000. 9 Lozovsky revealed Soviet plans. for extensive clr raids on Germany. tary Mission in 4scaw.., Czechoslovakia: General.Blaha organ- izing Czechoslovakian units In moscow. Belgium: Diplomatic 'relations with the -USSR resumed in London., Turkey., Gt. 'Britain: Tess denied re- ports of Soviet-British treaty pro- viding for. recognition of Russian . ,claims for control of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. .Japan ordered its civilians. to evacu- ate wide strip on ManchUkuo border. Japan: DoMel denied rumors of changes in Soviet-japanese relations follow- ing the COnclUsion of the neutrality ? pact (13- April). Japan: 'Moscow and Tokyo denied reports . of border clashes and Japanese demands on Russia. SOVIET INTERNAL?AFFAIRS Secretary Ickes' revealed first shipment of gasoline to Russia ' a week ago'.. Lozovsky denied .rumors of Soviet promises of Pacific bases to U.S. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 19141 AUGUST 10' MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS. - 12 -? GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS. AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Beginning of "Battle for the approaches to Leningrad" (cf. 8 September). ? Turkey, Gt. Britain: Britaii and the USSR made formal statements of attitude toward Turkey, denying aggressive intenti ons. 11 Odessa: German drive announced Trani Ankara reported Stalin' s iniarning Conference of 13 Slav nation- (cf. 19 August, 16 October). to Iran to expel German agents. alities nidosc ow. Polish social welfare miSsion going to Moscow to aid former prisoners. 12 Black Sea east of Odessa reached by Germans. Turkey, Gt. Britain: Briti sh-Rus si an - declaration of aid to Turkey if attacked' by a European- power; Russian reassertion of the Montreux ,conven- tion regarding the Dardanelles and promise to respect' Turkish integrity. 13 Czechoslovakia: Minister to USSR, Zdenek Fierlinger, arrived In Moscow. Krivoy Rog mining area occupied by Germans (cf. 18 August). Odessa and Nikolayev (cf. 18 August) reported surrounded. Loss of Pervomaisk and Kirovgrad announced by Russ i ans. Smolensk evacuated by Russians (cf. 16, 17 July). Poland: General amrie sty for all Polish war prisoners annOunced (cf. 30 July). Turkey refused an Italian war vessel passage into Black, Sea. Poland: Military agreement rea ohe d* between Polish and Soviet *High Command. ? ' rst. U.S. tanker sai led to - Russia from Los, Angeles. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -13i- DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS' AUGUST 15 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS ilERIcAN-SOVIET RELLTIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Smolensk front: Germans reported forced to abandon frontal at- tack on Moscow after 30-day battle costing hundreds of thousands of Casualties. 16 Sortavala on Lake Ladoga occupied by Finns. 17 Nikolayev captured by Germans (cf. 18 August). _18 Leningrad front: Kingisepp evacuated by Russians (of, 21,August). Krtvoy Rog (cf. 1),August) and, Nikolayev kcf. 31.4. 17 August) reported evacuated. Moscow Conference: A joint message from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to the President of Sovnarkom Stalin urged a conference in Moscow on the "apportionment of our joint resources" In order to bring about the defect of Hitlerism (cf. 16 August, 29 September). Japan, Mongolian Republic: Joint com- mission to fix Mongol People's Republic -- Manchukuo frontier com- pleted work. " Turkey permitted Italian naval tanker ? tp pass through Dardanelles for oil (2d exception to treaty regula- tions). Moscow Conference: Premier Stalin asked U.S., British"Ambessadors to convey , his gratitude. Promised to take measures to hasten the conference (cf. ' 15 August, 29 September). Bulgaria: Soviet Ambassador rejected protest against alleged bombing. Gt. Britain: BritOsh-Russian commer- cia)_ treaty signed In Moscow. Iran, Gt. Britain:.,Joint British- hussian warning to'Iran to oust Germans.' Polish Ambassador to Washington visited Soviet Embassy, re- establishing diplomatic contact. Undersecretary Welles conferred with Finnish Minister that Russia was prepared to make peace on the basis sation to Finland (cf. 3., 6 November). Qumansky and conferred Frocope informing him of territorial compen 4qiI(Zdg9.(EPMulo-ird supp y pro lems. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 19141 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS' .GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELLTIONS -SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS AUGUST 19 20 Odessa push begun by Germans. Ukraine west of the Dnieper declared occupled,by Germans. 21 Kherson captured by. Germans. Leningrad -front: Kingisepp (cf. 18 August), Narva,.. and Novgorod (cf. 25 August) claimed captured by., Germans; ri,ng around LAIngrad closed. Gomel reported evacuated by RUsslans. 22 N1kopol reported evacuated by Russians.. Poland: General- Anders reported USSR loyally and painstakingly execut- ing provislons of Soviet-Polish . milit?rY convention (cf. 30 July). Japan,'Mongolian Republic: Boundary -,,reement on the Manchoukuo- :?, Mongollan,frontie'r drafted In Harbin. . ; Edward C.:Carter announced a . million dollar drive to provide medlcal aid to USSR. Marshal Veroshilov appealed to .the people'of Leningrad . urging defense at all costs.T - Dneprostroy reported destroyed by Marshal Budennyts orders (cf. 28 August)., Alaska Delegate to Congress Dimond proposed that .U.S. ask- ' USSR for military and naval ? rights in Soviet -North -Pacific Islands. ? SecretaTy Hull announced that Russia had -'eon granted a general license to buy chemicals, rubber, metals, etc. Soviet dissatisfaction with quantity of aid received reported in Wv.shington and London. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ... .1941 'MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN 'RELATIONS ' 'AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL' AFFAIRS ? AUGUST 23-- Viborg encircled by. Finns (cf. 30 August). 24 Cherkassy captured by Germans. 25 Novgorod evacuated by Russians. Chilet-RepreSentatives of SoVi? com- mercial organizations reported in Chile. Chilean government reported consldering the re-establishment of commercial relations with the USSR. Japani Foreign Minister Toyoda made, representations to Ambassador Smetanin concerning the transport of militarTmaterial from the U.S. to Vladivostok. Turkey, Ir-n: Turkey informed Britain and Russia of intention to remain neutral regarding Iran, nfter.rejec- tion by Iran of mediation offer. Irani USSR note to the Iranian govern- ment on securing the Soviet rights under the Soviet Iranian treaty of 1921. Iran invaded by Russian and British troops. Japan. Molotov warned Japan against Interfering with lend-lease ship- ments (cf. 23 August). Australia: Britain, Australi-,, and USSR reported discussing use of Soviet ships to assist in shipping from Australia to Britain. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Marshal VoroshiloV'S order of the day stated.. that the enemy was nearing Leningrad, urged defense at all costs. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - i6 - ? DATE .1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAk FOREIGN RET,AT IONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS AUGUST 26 Dnepropetrovsk 'captured by .Germanb (cf. 28 August) - Iran: Tabriz occupied -by Russian troops. China: Tass denied that Soviet-Chinese meetings at Chita discussed matters beyond final stabilization or the - ' Manchurian border (cf. 5 August). 1 ?? 27 Zaporozhe (Ukraine) and Velikle Luk. (Leningrad -front) occu- pied by Germans. Moscow-Leningrad?railway cut. Secretary Hull asserted U.S. would Armenia: Pravda reported German insist .Upon freedom of seas. in promise to erect greater Pacific, in reply to request for Armenian state out of Armenian statement of position on Japanese SSR and Armeniansections of protests regarding war shipments Turkey and Iran. through Vladivostok. 28 , Tallinn captured by Germans Iranian conflict te'rMinated as a Lozovsky announced destruction (cf. 16 July). . new Iranian government formed.' of Dnieper Dam (cf. 20 August Evacuation of Dnepropetrovsk announced -(cf. 26 August). Finnish ra ltary attache at ffas hi ngt on stated his country was only fighting to regain ,lost territories. 29 W. A. Harriman announced by President Roosevelt as th3head of the U.S. Mission to the three power confer- ence in Moscow (cf. 3, 26 September). ? 30 Viborg captured by Finns (cf. 23 August). 31 - Soviet mission to purchase aircraft ,arrived at Nome frommosecw. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 17 MOD DATE 19/41 111. LI TARY DEVELOPMENTS . GENERAL _FOREIGN RE LATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELAT I ONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER Konevi s counter-attack in the Smolensk-Gomel sect- on. Krasnoye Selo reached by Germans (20 miles southwest of Leningrad).. Briti sh Trade Uni on Congress voted- organi zati on of Anglo-Ru ss an Tallinn evacuation announced by Trade Union Council. Russi ans (cf. 16 July). Finland: Lozovsky denied reports of peace negotiati ons with Finland. 3 Smolensk counter-attack continued. Gt. Britain: Ambassador Cripps said Md and Supply Miss; on to Moscow: Supreme Military. Sovi et of letter to Izvestiya Soviet resistance General Burns, General Brett, Admi ral Standley and Wi lliam L. Ball appointed (cf. 29 August-, 28 September). headed by Voroshi loy and Zhdanov to rule Leningrad. had saved Britain and U.S., and assured USSR of all possible aid. Gt. Britain: Lord Beaverbrook to head Brit; sh Hi ssi on to Moscow. Fi rot U.S. gasoline reached Germany: Berlin dsc1aimed any obli gati ons under lnteriationa1 law to feed the populati on of occupied Soviet areas. VladiVOstok. Leningrad encirclement claimed by Poland: Ambassador Kot arrived in 5 Germans. Len4 ngrad under German arti llery fire. Nose ow., 6 Gt. Britain: Sir Kingsley Wood stated that no monetary limit would be placed on credits to Russia, Sovi et Air Msid?" conferred with Bri gad; er General Brooks. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 six Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 19141 SEPTEMBER.? 7 GENERAL FOREIGN RELklIONS. AMEIRICAN?SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL.AFFAIRS. 8 Yelnya battle (26 days) concluded with-German rout. .Schluesselburg captUred by Germans:. ? end of the "Battle for the ap- proaches to Leningrad" (of. 19 January 19)01). 9 Russians continued Smolensk of- fensive. First assault of Leningrad begun by Germans. 10 Gt. Britain":- between the Bank of Engltnd and . the State Bank of the Soviet Union regulating the mode of payment and exchange signed in Moscow. Iran: Tass.denied German rumors that. local soviets were set up'by the - soviet armies of occupation in Tran. Iran agreed to the terms of occupation. Iran; Gt. Britairii British-oviet agreement with Iran, pertaining to seizure. of communications, closing of Axis legations, and occupation of border areas. ? Bulgaria accused of planning to at- tack Russia in Molotov's representa- tion to Bulgarian Minister. Turkey rejected German demand that Italian fleet be permittedto pass - through Dardanlles. U.S. Embasy junior personnel returned to Moscow from 'Kazan (cf. 17 July). Soviet flier, General Gromov arri ved i n We. shi ngt on wi th mission for technical talks. - Volga Germans exiled by decree of President Kalinin. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 19 DATE .1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS - ?GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN--SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 11 German assault on Leningrad stopped (cf. 9 September) 12 Cherni gov abandoned by Russi ans. 13 Russian -counter,offensi ve near "? Bryansk.- Kremenchug abandoned by Russians? Germans 15 miles from Leningrad. RAF wing arrived In Russia. Germans advanced to Perekop threatening Crimea; begah enci rclement of Kiev. 16 German bridgeheads- established across the lower Dnieper. Germans reported routing .9 Russian di vi sons south of Lake Ilmen. . . Iran, Gt. Britain:: Briti"sh and Russian diplomats protebted press attacks in -"Iran*: Finnish White Book accusing Russia of aggression released in Washington. Iran surrendered more Nazis in Tehran.? Gt. Britain: Beaverbrook announced. that all tanks made in Britain dUring the week were to be sent to. Russia. .Appoinl,ment of Beaverbrook as head of English economic ml ssi on to. USSR. Bulgarian..M1 ster n Mo s3 ow rejected Russian protest (oil'. 10 September). Iran: Reza . Shah abdicated. Oumansky Called on President RcroSevelt .and Secretary Hull on aid. - President Roosevelt co nferred with Harriman mission on aid allocati. one .American Red Cross-Mission 'headed by Allen Wardwell.to accompany Harriman mission. Oumansky end Soviet air missl on called. on President Roosevelt* ? Oumansky flew to London from ? Cane.da: Harriman tn route to Russia con,- ferred with Churchill. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Tass reported German sinking of hospital ship "Sibir"? Lozovsky hal led President Roosevelt' s speech of 11 September as serious blow to German ambi t ons. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01. : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 20 . ? _ , ? .-- DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 19141 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS ? AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 17 Kiev encircled; drive into Crimea begun by Germans. Svirstroy captured by Finns. 18 Crimea cutoff from ,the Russian mainland. Large Russian force claimed encircled east of 'Smolensk. f 19 Kiev and Poltava taken by Germant4 1 (cf. 21 September). 20 German drive towards Kharkov reported. 21 Sea of Azov reached by Germans. Osel Island off Estonia taken. Kiev: Loss conceded by Reds (cf. 19 September). 22 Second assault on Leningrad begun. Iran: Russian and British troops entered Teheran. Bulgarian governmett' rejected Soviet protests against the massing of Axis warshi ps in Bulgarian harbors. ? Japan protested the .si nking of a Korean vessel by Russian mine. Cze8hog1ovak.iat Soviet Ambassador ? Bogomolov presented credentials to ? Dr. Benles. Bulgaria protested the landing of Russi an .pc.?,rachuti sts in southern Dobrudja 14 September. Hitler reported to demand that BuIgari a , enter the war or be occupied.- ? ' Iran:. Mohammed Shah Pahlevi declarati on predging the closest cooperation with Russia, Gt. Britain: Ambassador..Ma.i sky appealed to British workers for more tanks, Russian Delegati on (Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan) named to confer v,ri.th the Harri man Mi se on Defense. .Suppl les Cprporati on conr*. tr acted wi th AMtorg? for the purchase Of ,100,0Q0,000 worth of manganese, etc. from the SoViet Uni on. Secretary Hull promised greater and swifter al d to Russia. Harri man stated in London that American and Bri ti s h. ml.ssi_ ons had agreed on Immediate Materi- al ai,d to. Russia. Senator George stated in Washing- ton ;it *would be a fatal mi stake por Congress to bar Russia from lend-lease. Harriman mission landed in Russia. State Committee of Defense order on the universal compulsory mi 11 tary trai ng ?of the USSR citi zens. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -21- DATE 194-1 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS - GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS IC AN -S OVIE T REL.12.T1 ONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 23 AssaUlt on Leningrad stopped. Leningrad radio reported the enemy at the gates, broadcast appeal to every citizen to help - In defense* 25 German attacic on Crimea begun in force. . Germans announced the .capture of , 574,000 Russians east of German paratroopers landed in Yevpatoria and Feodosiya. Germans reported ending big battle near Kiev* Bulgarian protest rejected - Cf.-19 .-" -Stettinus,.apked fer.rio restric- September>.: ,tions on aid to, the Soviet Union. . . Inter-Allied Conference ,in London, 2nd meeting: Russian and other delega- tiorp..pledged adherence to the "Atlantic gharter"-(Cf. 11 June 1942). Bulgarian Ministei of Interior 'denied that Bulgaria intended to enter the war against Russia. Free French: Soviet Government recognized the national committee of (It ? Free French movement as the official representative of France. Exchange of letters was effected on the following. day in London., between Ambassador-Maisky and Gen. de Gaulle. , Iranian envoys recalled from Germanytaly . and Rumania. Finland warned by the British Foreign Office that 1,t would be treated as a member of the Axis unless it.stopped invading purely Russian territory.. ..Czechoslovakia: Military agreement between - the supreme commands of the: USSR and - 'Czechoslovakia' signed in Moscow. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 German -Volga Republic (ASSR) formally abolished by the Supreme 'Soviet. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 22 - MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL. FOREIGN RELATIONS APE RI CAN SOVIET RELATIONS- ? -.S_OVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 28 Russian attempts to relieve Leningrad repulsed* 29 30 Poltava evacuated by Russians (cf. 19 September. - Lczovskyt s statement minimizi ng loss of ? Kiev, announcing counter-attack in Leni ngrad. OC T 0,BER 1 Crimea: First defense line on Perekop Isthmus broken by Germans. Petr ozavodsk capture claimed by Finns. ."Battle of Moscow" (cf. 6, 6 December): beginning of the first phase, the 17-day battle of Bryansk and VA.zma (cf. 18 December). Hitler/ s order of the -day: "Today begins the last great decisive battle of this year". Russian counter-attacks at Lenin- grad and Odessa reported. ? Gt. 13ri tal n: Lord .Beaverbrook received by Stalin ip the Kremlin. Harriman and staff recei ved by Stall ri in the Kre.mlin on arrival in Moscow, -Power econemic conference begun in Moscow Poland: Letter fr"ot.Polish Ambassador Clechanow'Ski to ? SeCretary. Hull advising that the Soviet government "'is"loye.11y fulfilling all Its engagements," :includ- ing that of allowing religious a'ctvtie& Poland : Anders reported the organ!! zatioh of three Polish di vi sions in RuSsia? Czech-Russian mi litary pact si gned in London. (cf. 1 Oct ober )? End of Tri-Power conferenoe In Moscow cf. 29 September 4, Colic ng addresses by Harr; man end ?Molotov. Be zbozhni k (athei st newspaper) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ' suspended. ?41 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 23 - DATE a 941. MILITARY DEVELopyENTS_ GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS al:ERIC AN -S OVIET -RELATI_O.NS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS OCTOBER -3 Hitler's speech' reported .gigantic operation for the past L1.8 hours; stated "Russia s already broken and wi 11 never rise again". Orel claimed by Germans (cf.. 8 ? October). Crimea: Russ an counter-offensi ye. Moscow: Two-Tronged drive begun by Germans. 6 7 Central front: Beg; nni ng of a major German offensive. Mariupol reported taken by Germans (cf. 1)4 Oct ober )? 8 Orel evacuated by. Russians (cf. 3 October). ? Finns rejected Briti sh note of warning (cf. 27 September ), made claims to to terri tory beyond old borders. Iran: Tass dent ed that the Soviet Union . i.nsted on t1 annexation of north-- western Iran to Soviet Armenia and the t Gen. Waxen had appr oved this demand-. Secretary Hull conversed with FiniilhMnister Pr oc ope (cf. 7 November); warned that that U.S. ?was prepared to spend 75 bi 111 on dollars in suppress-Ing Hi tier. . ?SeCretery Hull indatedhis ? support of the British note. - ? to Finland (cf. 27 September). - Text of President Roosevelt's letter to Stalin released by the White House. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 LQZ ov sky cited consti tuti onal provis ons concerning free- dom of religion. Anti re li gi (Atheist pub - 11 cati on) ,suspended by author itie s. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R00010-0020001-3 DATE - MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS' 19)41 GENERAL ?FOREIGN RELATI-ONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET I TERNAL AFFAIRS OCTOBER -9_ Vyazme..:Bryansk sector: 60-70 Russian divisions claimed. trapped by Germans. Otto Dietri ch announced the: collapse of Soviet mi tary resi stancel "The ml litary dee; sion has already. fallen. :The rest dfthop'?tions !r11 take the course It. wish them to. For ?-- 1 mi tary pur- ? . poses Sovl et Russ; a .1 s done ? with." 10 Russian retreat begun in Bryansk sector. Claims of encirclement (cf. 9 October) deni ed. 11 Germans wi thi n 100 miles ?of Moscow. Germans completed "The battle of the Sea of Azov". 12 Bryansk evacuated. Bri taint Lord, Beaverbrookt s announcement of the British posi ti on ? on aid.ng Russia: "We do-not ask to put them on a ? bas-is of payMent". Afghanistan: USSR Ambassador Mikhail ov made represente.,ti ons concerning Gorman and Italian anti -Soviet activities (cf. 19 October). Lend-Lease bill passed in the House; amendment to bar Ruse, a rejected. Government 'announced that all women and children not engaged n war industries would be removed. from Moscow. "Re,d Star" urged second front. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDPO*9-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 'DATE 1941 ? MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS :GENERAL _FOREIGN RELATIONS ALER IC AN7SOVIE T RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS OCTOBER 13 Nyazma evacuated. Drive towards Rzhev discloied by Germans. 14 Germans at Mozhalsk, 60 miles from .Moscow. ? Russians announced the fall of, Mariupol (cf. 7 October).- . Russians evacuated Kalitin,_reported Nazi break through in Mozhalik sector. High water mark in the "Battle of Moscow". 16 Odessa captured :by Germans. and 'Rumanians after a 2 months. ? siege (cf. 19 August). 17 German drive towards Ryazan southeast of Moscow reported. Gt. Britain: Labor delegation headed -by Sir Walter Citrine to consult with Soviet Trade Union leaders reported In Moscow. Gt. Britain: Churchill opposed to a debate in the House of Commons on British assistance to Russia. Japan, Mongolian Republic': Manchukuo- - ,Mongollan frontier in BornNor'region fixed' in a conference at Harbin attended by Russian and Japanese representatives. President Roosevelt announced, - speeding aid to Russia. Harriman broadcast from London claiming.Russian morale is :high. _ President Roosevelt announced lend-lease figures. Secretary 'Hull stated Ambassador Steinhardt to.remain in Moscow to handle supiAles. .American.Embassy. in Moscow announced offici.ally removal of staff to the new secret Scvlet Capital (cf.. 20 October). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Proclamation iSsued in Moscow urging fight to the, last breath.: Barricades being ? erected'. Foreign embassies began evacuat- ing Moscow. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 6 - DATE 19141 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL 'FOREIGN RPLATIONS - AVERIOAN-SOVIET RELATIONS* SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS OCTOBER .18 Germans (wrongly)- claimed winning :the 17-day battle of Bryensk ? and Vyazma, destroying 8 Soviet armies. Beginning of "battle of the Crimea" .(cf. 29..October). 19 "Battle of Mbscow":? Germans attacking et Mozhaisk and Maloyaroslavets.. Taganrog captured,. by Germans.. ? 20 "Battle of Moscow".:. German advance generally stopped.. -Stalino?OkraineYand-Dagoe. Island'Ustonia) claimed by Germans. 22 Russian counterattacks at Kalinin and Hozhaisk reported; "Battle of Moscow:" front generally ? - stabilized. ? Taganrog admitted lost (Cf. 19 October). Rumania: Odessa incorporated in Rumania. Afghanistan2 Germans and Italian nation- als deported in compliance with the. Soviet demand (cf.-11 October). Iran, Gt. Britain: British-Soviet- IranIan alliance piaCed beftre the British Parlia- ment. - U.S. Ambassador. arrived An KuibyShev (of.. 17 October). Stabilization:fund credits extended to Russia. ?? U.S. Mari-rime CommissiOn decided to discontinue ship- ments to the USSR by way of Pacific. State Committee of Defense rulines proclaiming state of siege In Moscow.., Kulbyshev?set up as temporary capital of the USSR. -State-of-siege declared in ? Moscow. Stalin reported commanding the troops in the field. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 27 - DATE MILITIRY DEVELOPMENTS , GENERAL FOREIGN ?IILLTIONS ? AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS OCTOBER 23 Kharkov and Belgorod reported captured by Germans. German drive to Rostov at Makeyevka 70 niiles north- west of Rostov. New Nazi offensi ve agai nst, Moscow begun. German drive on Rostov continued. Stalinb (Ukraine) reported evacua- ted by Russians (cf. 21 October)., 27 Russian counter-attack south of Moscow reported. Japan: Soviet -Japanese korder clash reported. Japan denied the incldent. China: Soviet Embas sy n Washi ngton stated that Russia had informed Chungking of inability to continue war shipments. to China. Gt. Britain: .Sbvi et communique revealed ? _ that agreement ht...d been reached In ? ? determ7.ning the principal object; ves of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Com,7. rrilttee during the first session of. the Committee, 13-15 October... japan: So-Vie t-Japanese border clash reported by Tass but denied by Japan.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Delayed dispatches from Kulbyshe-v- reporting that Zhukov replaced Timoshenko on central front, and Timo- shenko replaced Budenny on s out her n front. Marshals Voroshilov and,Budenny :- transferred to the Interior to train new armies (cf. 22 December). Pravda .called, upon the people of' Moscow to convert every house' and street Into a stronghold* General' Zhukov i'-ssued .'"Not a ; step ba ck' order Mose ow. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 28 DATE 19141 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS ATERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS _SOVIET INURNAL JF IRS -OCTOBER , 28 Russian ,counter-attack at Mozha; sk south of Moscow. New German drive at Volpkolamsk northwest of Moscow ('cf. 1 ? November). Germans entered Kramatersk. 29 Germans Invaded October). ,Tula -declared in a state of siege (cf. 31 October, 23 December). Russi_ans admi tted loenk Kharkov, reported successful evacuation of plants (cf., 24 October). Crimea (cf. 18 Germans repuleed at Tula, but - * Approach7ng Serpukhov. - 31 Tula besieged by Germans. ? German s -alai med f i nal capture of Kalinin (cf. 15 October). President Roosevelt in a, letter to Stalin pledged .1,000_000,- 000 3n lend-lease aid to Russia (cfl ,4 November). Greece: ktbassador Plpinells accredited In Moscow.. Marshal Shaposhn1kov succeeded General Zhukov'as Chief of . , Staff., Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 29 - DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS -19/4 GENER.AL FOREIGN .RELATIONS MRI CAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS NOVEMBER . I ficsc ow front: German break through .follcwing a four-day battle. ? Len i ngrad front: Germans break' through-at-the -Volkhov River. Crimea:. SimferOpol.rePorted taken by. Germans. fr 2 Drive on Sevastopol begun ? (Cf. 2 - Jul Sr 19) IP) . Begnnng of battle at Maloyaroi-, slavets (cf. 15-November).? Russi an forces in 'Crimea split. Kursk reported taken by Germans. Crimea: Feodosiya reported taken by Germans. Kolvi sto Islands in the Gulf of Finland occupied. by Finns. Finn attacks on Murmansk reported. 5 Germans reported on the Black -Sea Coast between Yalta and Feodosiya. Russian troops mit nto three segments. Latest offensi ve against Moscow reported broken. Ryti -denied presence_ of -German troops -on Murmansk front. Fnlmd: Germans and Italians denounced U.S. note to Finland (cf. 3 November) Turkey: -President Inonu reiterated Turkish neutrality. President Roosevelt and Prime nister King of Canada con-! ferred on aid to Russia. . Secretary- Hull at press con- ference worned Finland to halt Its ?invr.si on of Russia and with- draw troops - from Russian soil, revealed U.S. attempt to mediate (cf. 18 August). Marshal Stalin accepted President Roosevelt's pledge of ;,1,000,000- 000 in lend-lerse aid Vo Russia (cf. 30 October). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1941. MILITAI-C1 DEVELOPMENTS ? g.ENERLL FOREIGN- RE UT IONS. AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTER NAL AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 6 Russian. counter-attacks at Kalinin; Volokolamsk, and Mozhal Beginni ng of 10-day battle at Leningrad (cf. ? 15 November). 7 8 Tikhvin capture claimed by. Germans (cf. 14 November). Hi tier,. in a speech- in Muni ch, estimated Russi an; losses as 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 men. 9 Crimea: German capture of Yalta claimed. German wi thin 30 miles of Moscow. :Japan protested the sink; ng of the liner ?Kehi. Maru in the Sea of Japan by Russi an mi ne-. Vichy France: Retain eulogi zed legion of French volunteers: against Bolshevism. Finland rejected British-American. warn; ngs (cf. 7 October). Maxim Li-tvinov appointed Am- bassador to. Washington replac- i ng Oumnnsky who was :appointed head of Tass News Agency. President 1-toosevelt?' in a letter' to the lend -lease admini strator Stetti ni us, di reefed immedi ate acti on to transfer defense sup- plies to the USSR under the Lend-Lease Act, and to carry out the terms of extension of credit (04. 30 October) State Department released memo. randa on conversation with the Finnish Minister (cf. 18 August, 3 October). Report of Joseph Stalin, chair- man of the State Committee of Defense, before the Moscow Soviet: Stalin predicted a second front i n the near future and proclaimed a war of annihi lati on agal nst Germany. He also di sclai med wi shing to seize Iran. Stalin's address. at the review . . of the, Rea Army Jr edi cting Nazi collapse and-stating that spirit of revolt was gaining possession not only in occupied ?countrie s, but also In Germany. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1941 MILITARY - DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS .4MERICANSOVIETRELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 10 _ Crimea: Beginning of the siege of - Sevastopol. 11 ? Germans admitted drives arounde, Moscow stalled. 12 _German and Rumanian troops reached the Crimean coast south. of Kerch. Kerch under German attack. ' Russians counter-attacking at Tula. Russians broke through siege lines at two points outside of Lenin: =grad. Russians counter-attacking at Tikhvin (cf. 8 November). Gt..Britaln: Soviet-British Trade Union agreement ratified by trade_ . union authorities in both countries. Ambassador Steinhardt's .letter to ' the IzvestiYa praising the Red Army. AppointMent of Lit/inov-as Am,7. tassadot to U.S. revealed in Moscow. Finland rejected U.S. warning (3 November) In a note to -'1 :Washington. Secretary Hull stated at press conference that Finland aids Hitler.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 The.first-political conference of German prisoners in Russia drew up a message to the , German. people calling for an _end to HitleriSm ahd the crea Von of a "free and independent Germany".. .Litvinov's appointmentas Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs announced. Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DJE MILl TaY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS EMBER ' 15 German landing. at Murmansk repulsed. End of 14-day battle at Mal oYarosla- ? vets (cf. 2 November). End of 10-day battle ? at Leningrad . , (cf.. 6 November). Approximate: end of the Len; ngrad offensives (,cf. 5 August). Germa:ns adMi tted Rus'si an. counter- attack's at Mos cow and Sevastopol. , "Battille of Moscow": Beginni ng of the sedond great offensive on Mos Cow -..(ef;.; 6 December). U.S. planes (TomahaWks ) first re- ported used on Moscow front. German soldiers frozen to death. first reported by Moscow radio: 17 Crimea: Kerch capture announced by . . Germans. "Battle of Moscow" Germans re- ,. , ported.. dri ven back, at Tula. Japanese-Soviet border clash near Manchuli Th Manchoukuo (cf. 21 -November). Germany: Alfred Rosenberg appointed as Rech Mini ster for the East; Erich Koch, C0171171 s71 one r for the Ukrane; H. Lohse, tommi ssi oner for Ostl and (Baltic States and White Rus si a). Ambassadors Ste; nhardt and Li tvinov arrived Teheran en route to London and Washington. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01- : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ? DLTE -19)41 MILITARY DEVELOPI5NT5. GENERAL F0RETGN:RELATIONS ANtRICAN--SOVIET.RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 18 Rostov front: Beginning .of large, Gt, 3rtaint Prime Minister Churchill General John N. Greely tollead. German offensive down the Don toldthe House of Commons that Anglo-. American Army mission,to the 'valley. Russian cooperation is as close as USSR. geographical conditions allow. Finland: Denounced by the Soviet Foreign offce as ''an-dbedient tool in the theji7ttlerite clique of-lm- ,peria7list.inv,;ders".. Gt. Britain: Amhassador-Litvinov pre- vented by Brsh officials' from boarding a plane at -Teheran. : ? 20, Kerch evacuation announced by the Russians ? (cf. 17 November).* . ? 21 German attacks on Moscew front at ?? Japan: Soviet-Japanese border clash Kalinin, Volokolamsk, Mozhalsk, (16 November) denied by Tass. and Tula. . ? 22- Rostov captured.by Germans .(cf. A-November). -- -End of the four month "Ukrainian .campaign 2 (cf. 4, 5 August). Russians pushed back at Tula, Mozhaisk and Klin. Kalinin by-passed by Germans. - Russians. counter-attacking at Leningrad.- Germans driven back at Rostov. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE '94.1 ? -MI LI TARY- DE VE LOPIE N T S - GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS - 3) - . AMERICAN-SOVIET RELLTIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS. NOVEMBER ' Ph -Russians denied the Capture of Rostov. Germans 31 th1es from Moscow, at Solnchegorsk. Soviet counter-attacks on the Leningrad - ? and Rostov fronts. Germans driven back* at Rostov. Stalinogorsk re ache d by Germans on Moscow front. 26 German drive to encircle Moscow In. Gtalinogorsk direction. Othe r German advances in:the Klin- Solnchegorsk front. 27 German break through reported in the Tula-Stall nogor sk sector. 28 German spearhead east of Klin encircled. On tt-e Tula salient Germans occupied Skopin. Anti-Comintern meeting ? of 13 powers in Berlin. Renewal and extension of s the fi rt Anti -Comi ntern. pact ? of 1936 si gned, by 12 nations. Germany.:' 1VIoloteve s note to. ? all coun- . trie s With' -vvhi ch Rus sia maintains diplomatic re la ti ons accusing. Germany of systemati c atrocities and outrages? against wounded ? Ru:ssian prisoners. .. Japan, China: To4i. announced ? that Chi ang Kai -She k s dancing th the tune of ? Britain, America and ? C ommuni, sin". Secretary Stimson accused the Finns whose aid "enable s Germany to co nc ent rate her efforts on a line harmful to the interests of the United States". Foreign Commis sar Molotov an? - nounced German (6,000,000) and -Soviet(2,122,000) .casualti es. U.S. note to Japan -proposing- a non-aggressi en pa ct among the British Empire, Chum, japan, ti-e Netherland s, Russia, Thailand, . and the -United States:, President Roosevelt conferred with Ambassador Steinhardt who re- turned by plane from Kui byshe v. Secretary. Hull declared that every act of the Finni-sh government ? si nc e ts note of 11 November "has -confi rmed ? our apprehensions- tha that is fully co. ope rating wl the. Hitler forces." Mentioned Finland' s si gni ng of .the Anti.- Comi.ntern tact (25 November) as "highly significant". Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 :_CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -35- DATE MILITARY DEVELOPNENTS 19)41 GENERAL -FOREIGN. RELATIONS - AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS' SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS NOVEMBER . 29 Rostov recaptured by the. Reds. (cf. 22 November) after a 3-day battle. VolokOlamsk capture claimed by .Germans (Cf. 20 December). Balaklava.capture, near Sevastopoli' claimed by Germans. - Russians retook?3 towns. around Kalinin. 30 Rostov front: Germans. driven back to Taganrog and Mariupol. DECEMBER 1 Germans conceded. evacuating Rostov (cf. 29 November). Rostov front: General von Kleistts panzer column trapped near. the _Sea of Azov. Soviet offensive launched north- ? and south of Moscow (cf.. 17 December). 3 RoStov front: Germans driven back to Taganrog. Soviet counter-attacks on the Moscow and Leningrad fronts. Hangs peninsula evacuated by Russians. Finnish Parliament passed a bill re-establishing Finland'S-. frontier of 1939.. Poland: Gen. Sikorski arrived in ? .'Kulbyshev. 'Qt.. Britain: Tass. published Eden's - denial of Soviet-British plan's of attack on Germany before the German attack on Russia. Poland: Gen. Sikorski received by Kalinin. Japan: Clash of Soviet and Japanese , patrols on the Siberian- ManchoUkuoan border. , Poland: . eginning of Russo-Polish con- versations in Moscow: Gen. Sikorski received by Stalin. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Pliblication of the newspaper . "Das Freie Wort" by and for' . German prisoners reported .from Moscow, ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 36 - DATE 19/41 MILITARY. DEVELOPIVIENT S. GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AME C.A.11 -SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFL IRS. DE CEIABER 4 Rostov-Taganrog counter- offensive continued by Aeds. HangB peninsula occupied by Finnish forces. ? 5 Rostov front: Soviet counter- offensive continues by- passing Taganrog. Moscow front: Germans driving to . Dimitrov. ? 6 Rostov front: Rus si ans reached the Sea of Azov trapping the Germans in Taganrog-. Moscow front: Soviet counter- attaCk at Di mi troy, Volokolamsk and Mazhai ak Tula-Moscow road cut by Germans. Moscow front: Soviet break through through at two points. German troops declared on the d e - fens; ve along the entire front. Poland:: Polish?Russi an declaration of mutual assistance and friend ship si gned. In Moscow by Premier Stalin- and Premier Sikorski. Hungary, Rumania and Finland rejected a Briti sh ultimatum to halt their :attacks against Rus British Foreign Office announced that communi cat!' ons were being sent to Hungary,". Rumania and Finland which. would result in a state of war (cf. 5 December). Finland-: President Ryti br dcast de termi nati on of Finland to fight to final victory over Russia. End of "Battle of Moscow", (cf. 2 dctober). Beginning of "Winter campai 'gn" (of. 26 Apri 1 19142): Berlin declared that winter weather had: halted the Moscow offensive and the t Moscax capture was not expected that year. , Crimea invaded by Russians -across Kerch . straits (cf. 27 December). Ambassador Litvinov arrived in 'Washington. U.S. declared war on Japan. . Exchange of speeches between President Roosevelt and Ambassader Litvi Nov in the ? course of a eeredi ting of the . latter. Supreme Soviet the election - Soviet. The 19141 Supreme for a year. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ukaz postponing s to the Suprem powers of the Soviet extended Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -37- DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET REIA TIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS DECEMBER 9 Leningrad front: Tikhvin re- captured by-Russians after 10 days of heavy fighting (cf. 8 November). ? 11 Orel sector: Yelets recaptured by the Red Army. Soviet air superiority on all fronts clai med. German trooPs admitted with- drawing to winter positions. 11 12 German armies besieging Moscow reported routed; 400 towns and villages liberated since - 16 November. 13 Russians advanced on all fronts. Volkhov recaptured. 'Germany: Pravda .alluded to German peace feelers to Russia.- "Peace with - Germany 11 be concluded by the USSR jointly with 'England and. the United -States." Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. U.S. declared war on Germany and Italy. Secretary Hull and Ambassador. Litvinov met for .a general exchrInge of information. Following the vi sit Litvinov declared: "We have a common cause and a common battle". Hungary and-Bulgaria declared Great Britain declared War on Bulgaria. war on tle U.S. Litvinov stated at a press on- ference ti-at Russia intended to concentrate on defeating Hitler and would not open a second front , against Japan in Eastern Siberia Itat present". He referred to Japan as "the common -enemy of Russia Britai n and the United States?!. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Pravda edit ori al declared that no compromise and no peace th Hi tle rism was possible. Fravdet stated that Japan was doomed to "certain defeat in the Pacific". Foreign correspondents re- turned to MoScow from Kulbyshev. DATE 1914 MILIT4Y .D.EVELOPMENTS Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ? GENERAL FOREIGN REILTIONS -38. AVER.ICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS DECEMBER 114. Soviet advance continued. Klin (Moscow front) recaptured, with 13,000 German losses. Soviet counter-attacks on Leningrad and Sevastopol fronts. 16 Kalini n recaptured. Beginni'hg of the Soviet offensive on the Central Front (cf. 19 January 19142). General Soviet offensive south of Lake Ladoga. 17 Many Soviet tams recaptured by offensive south and north of Moscow (cf. 2 December). 18 Beginning of 8-day battle around Volkhov (cf. 25 December). 19 Moscow front; Soviet advance Nest and Southwest continued.: Von BrauchitSch removed by HItler as Commander-in-chief; Hitler -assumed the post hi.mself. Czech govth-nment in London declared a state of war with all countries at war v?h Bri tai n., U. S. , and U? S. S.R? Japan: Foreign Minister Togo stated at Parliament that Ja pane s e -Sov:1 et re- lations were still based on neutral- ity pact. Mackay Radio author? zed by the FCC to e stabil sh direct radio tele gram service to Russia. President Roosevelt's message to Congress: The Anti -Com; ntern Pact "was nominally directed against the Soviet Uni on, but Its real purpose was to form a league of fascism against the free world". General Repin, head of Russian MIi4tary MssIon, stated 1n New York that "all the enemies of the United States now are also the enemies of the Soviet Ifni on". Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 39 - DATE 19141 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN REIATIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELLTIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS DECEMBER 20 Volokolamsk recaptured by the Red. Army (cf. 29 November). 21 Soviet advance continued on Western, .Ke1inin; Southwestern, and Leningrad f ront s. 22 23 Gorbachevo and several toms south of Moscow recaptured by Reds. Sege of Tula relieved (cf. 29 October). Sevastopol siege continued. 20,0(50 Nazis reported killed since 19 December. End of battle around Volkhov, with 6,000 Germans killed _ -(cf. .18 December). Naro Fominsk and other towns re- captured by Reds southwest of Moscow.. First joint naval action by Soviet and British- vessels reported from London: Soviet ship "Perekop" sunk by the Japanee. Prime Minister 'Churchill arrived In Washington for cdnversations ,which will .be ".preliminary to further conferences which will officially include Russia.'..". Bulgaria: Secretary;-General of the Com- intern Georgi Dimitrov sentenced to death in absentia in Sofia on charges ?of plotting -a revolution. Ambassador Li tvi nb informed by President Roosevelt of progress of conversations between the President and Prime Minister Churdhi 11. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Voroshi lov named head of the Red Army in the Far East. ? Supreme Soviet ukaz postponing the electi ons to local Soviets (cf. 5 December). Supreme - SoVi et. ukaz freezing workers J.; n.war industry. - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 19141 . MILIT.4RY DEVELOPMENTS GEISRLL FOREIGN REL TIONS AMERICAN-SOVIET RELLTI ONS SOVIET INTERNJ1L AFFAIRS DECEMBER 27 Likhvin and other.towns re- captured, southwest of Mos cow . Russians .8 end ing troops 4nto Crimea across Kerch Strait. Field Mershal von Bock rePlaced by . Gener al von Arni m on Mos cow front. 28 Nar -Fomi nsk: end 'of ' two Months' battles. - ? 29 Crimea: Kerch (cf. 17., 20 November) and Fe odosiya (cf. !..4_ November) recaptured by s 30 Kozelsk recaptured on Moscow front Kaluga recaptured by Reds. It fell before 24 October when German )4th army (von Kluge) and Guderiant s tank army were routed. ' Bulgari a: U.S. Mi ni ster to Bulgaria' arrived in Istanbul. Gt. Bri tai n: Eden-Stalin- conferences in Moscow s nee Md -Decemb er" "showed, an- i.dent.i ty of views" -relating to the conduct of war-, . and adoption of meas.,. , ures to render completely impos sible ? any repetition of German aggress-ion n the Cut ur e" . Japan: Soviet -Japanese fi. she ri es ne,goti ati ons in Kulbyshey re- vealed n - Tokyo., Gt. Britain Soviet Trade Union del? - ? gati on headed by N. Shvernik_ arrived ?Lond on. Gt. Britain: Foreign Secretary Eden returned to London from Moscow. 7 :Supreme Sovie t ukaz or der ing " a war ? tax.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1941 MILITARY DEVELOP/MS GE-IERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS LISRICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERiAL AFFAIRS , DECEMBER 31 ?., .?. Germanyi- flitler, in two New Year's ' proclamati ons broadcast to the army asserted that "Churchill and Roosevelt have delivered Europe to Stalin". Poland; Loan agreement providing Polish government with 400 million rubles for the relief of Polish nati.orials in the USSR signed 4n Kulbyshev.- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 .,:? Zaslavsky, writi rig In Pravda tr-Iti.di.zed the United .States for. declaring Manila an open city. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 D4TE 1942 .fflommiremporow?????*......?. ilLITARY DEVZLOPIZ:TS J/14 1 Loseow front:. St_,ritsa recap- tured by Rusarns. Riblur re,)eri,ed in the Russinn battle :'rea in attonpt to stem a rout of the nazi forces. 2 Voscaa front: Ealoyaroslavets recaptured by Russians; 150,000 Nazis thaxntoned with entrp- ment. Mozhaisk salient: approximate beginning of 18 day bettle. aori.:41.1?114?????1111. ????011.111110.?????????raloni. ? GEI?TERAL 20P2IGi IIELAT TOPS ?AiJERICAY SOVIET RELATIOD8 Moscow front: Borovsk recaptured by Russians driving on MozhaiSk: Kaluga captured by the Soviet offensive. 5 Moscow front: Belev recaptured by Russians. ? Russian advances continues on the Crimean, Southern, Central and ? Leningrad fronts. 6 Crimea: Russian landings made at Yevpatoriya and Yalta; Germans cut off and trapped on the Kerch peninsula. 7 SOVIET rTERTAL .A:PAIRS United Ilftion Decletration: Simcd in .,shinf.ton by 26 mations at war with )1ed:1nc: each net to rd-ke a sep:Irote ueece and 1,o c.p)loy its rail vs=urces acainst the common enemy. (Sec 14 August 19/1, the -tl ntic Charter.) Gt. Britain:- Secretary Eden broadcast account of talks With Stalin in Moscow. ; Nerway:' Norwegian envoy, AndvOrd, presented his credentials to M. I. Kalinin. German atrocities:* Molotov issued a note to foreign envoys charg- ing the Germans with massacres of civilians, and stated that retribution would be demanded. (See 27 April.) SchOol children received ' defense training. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 JOH. 9 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Crimea: Sevastopol siege (tem- porarily) lifted as Nasi retreated. Kharkov: Russians penetrated into the city. 10 Leningrad front: Beginning of 12 day battle south of Lake Ilmen. 11 Moscow front: Azhev-Bryansk rail- read line broken by Russians at 47-11dinovo. 12 13 - Moscow front: Gorokhovo and. Kirov recaptured by Russians. Mozhaisk and Orel stormed by Reds. Finland: Finnish paper Uusti Suomi urged peace with the Soviet Union. London: Resolution on German war crimes signed by represen- tatives of nine occupied countries, (Russia not a signatory). An interallied conference met in LOndon. Russia was r4resented. by observers who expressed soli- darity with the "Declaration of the Punishment of War Crimosff adopted by the conference. (See 14 October.) Japan: 'Vice Commissar Lozovsky declared that Soviet-Oapanese re- lations were unchanged, still being based on the neutrality pact of last April. r Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 A Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR published a note about the looting-and destruction of Yasnaya Poiyana by the -German vandals. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JAN. 14 Moscow front: Medyn on Podolsk- -Vyazma railroad line recaptured. Crimea: Russian paratroopers - dropped at Porekop. 1.5 Moscow front: Selizharovo (botWeen Leningrad and Moscow) recaptured. 16 17 Central front: Mozhaisk salient attacked by Russians, as further towns on the Moscow front were recaptured. 18 Central front: Mozhaisk entered by Russians. Ukraine: Beginning of a large drive by Timoshonko. 19 Moscow front: Voroya and Konbrovo recaptured by Russians. Crimea: Foodosiya recaptured by Germans. Central front: Approximate,end of groat battle begun 16 Dec. 1941 by Russians. 20 Mozhaisk recaptured by Russians after 18-day battle (cf.Jan.2). Great Britain: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr appointed Ambassador to the USSR succeeding Sir Stafford Cripps. Free French: Gen. do Gaulle, broad- casting from London, said fightihg Franco and the new Russia were.allies. Gt. Britain: Sir Stafford Cripps gave a farewell message to the-Soviet people. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JAN. 21 Mozhaisk: Germans being driven to the west. 22 Uvarovka, west of Mozhaisk, recaptured by Reds. The recapture of KhoIm was announced. 23 Leningrad front: End of 12-day battle south of Lake Ilmen resulting in recapture of 2000 localities and retaking of Rzhev-Velikie Luki railroad. (See 10 January.) 24 Moscow front: Rrahov nearly sur- rounded by Russians. Leningrad front: Russian offen- sive continued, approaching Velikiye Luki. 25 26 Czechoslovakia: Loan agreement with the USSR, for the maintenance of the Czech armed forces in the USSR, signed in Kuybyshev. Poland: Loan agreement with the USSR (300 million rubles, for the main- tenance of Polish armed forces in the USSR) signed in Kuybyshev. Signing of Polish-Czech cooperative agreement announced in London. Japan: Foreign Minister Togo declared in the Diet that Japanese-Russian relations had not undergone any changes, and were governed by the Neutrality Pact. (See 13 January,) ? Gt. Britain: Sir Stafford Cripps pre- - dieted a Russo-Japanese war, and the defeat of Germany by Russia. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 The Soviet press published statements by Baltic officials on war crimes committed by Germans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE. MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 - ' GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET _RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JAN. 27 . 28 29 Ukraine: Lozovaya recaptured .following a 10-day drive by Timoshenko, by which 400 towns were liberated. '(See 10 January.) . 30 31 London: Churchill, in the Rouse of Commons, said: We all agree that we must'aid the valiant Russian armies to the utmost limit of our power.... If we had not shown a loyal effort to help our Ally, ... I do not think our relations with Premier Stalin and his great country would be as good as they are new.' Soviet-Iranian-British treaty of alli- ance, based on the Atlantic Charter, signed at Teheran. Provision for the mijlitary use of Iran until six, months after the end of the war "against Germany and her associates." Germany: Hitlerfs speech at Berlin Sports Palace: "Within the hour in which Molotov left Berlin... it became clear to me that this conflict was inevitable.... Four months of Northern winter arenow past.., in a few weeks the hour will .come when we shall beat them." ? Birthday 'telegram from Kalinin to Roosevelt expressing confidence in the eventual complete defeat of -Ritlerism. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 "Free Germany": An appeal to the German people ask- ing for the overthrow of the Nazi regime signed by 23 German writers and . artists,. 19 former members of the ReichStag and 18 trade union leaders, pub- lished in Moscow papers,. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 MILITARY -DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS FEB. 1 2 Kharkov and Smolensk approached by the Rods in front-wide advances. Kalinin area: Beginning of a long battle (cf. 3 March). 6 7 Supreme Court decision ruling that, under the Roosevelt- Litvinov agreement of 1933, establishing U.S.-Soviet diplo- matic relations, all Russian claims against corporations and persons were o.signed to the U.S. President Ryti of Finland stated in the Diet: ,'In this heroic battle we are fighting by the side of our comrades in arms, the Germans." Canadian-Russian consular agreement signed in London. Iran severed diplomatic relations with Vichy (as a consequence of the Anglo- Russian occupation of Iran). Germany: German prisoners of war in USSR protested to the International Red Cross mistreatment of Soviet prisoners by Germans (Pravda report). 8 ?Leningrad front: Qerman perimeter below Leningrad pierced by Reds. Central front: Violent German counter- attacks reported. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Statements were published revealing Jan. 1942 arma- ment output to be 40% ' above that of June 1940. President Kalinin said in an address: 4Hitler will pay more than ho has already paid for his dream of occupying Moscow." Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE.. MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 .GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS 9 10 12 13. White Russia invaded by Reds after 2 weeks' drive. Leningrad blockade. reported ..(temporarily) broken. 14 :IN.cmtherWfront: :Approximate begin-, ming of.10-day.bettle at :Staraya Russo. (cf. 24 Feb.). 15 16 Adm. Wm. H. Standby nominated by President Roosevelt to succeed Laurence A. Steinhardt as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, TUrkey: Tass denied a Havas-OFI Sofia dispatCh alleging a Soviet-Turkish border incident. Ukaz on the mobilization of urban population for work in industry and construction in- cluded men aged 16 to 65, and women aged 16 to 45. Gt. Britain: Prime Minister Churchill broadcast: "The Russian armies have not been defeated...For the first time they have broken the Hitler legend.... The system upon which the Soviet govern- ment is founded is very different from ours or from that of the United States.... The fact remains that...through preserv- ing national unity...Russia has had the marvelous come-back...." Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part.- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE. 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS" SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS? FEB. 17 18 19 _ 20 Finland: Appeal to the-F1nnish people., by the First conference_ of Finnish prisoners of war in USSR, 'published in Izvestiva,. President Roosevelt confirmed that B. L. Vapnikov replaced ? a new loan will be made Moscow; - I. Sergeyev as Munitions and that American aid to the Commissar. Soviet Union will be brought up to schedule in two weeks. South Africa: Agreement establishing Consular relations with the USSR . signed in London. 22 China: Chiang Kai-sbekls message to President Roosevelt said in his Stalin: "I strongly believe the Nashingtonts birthday broadcast:- spiritual affinity between our two ItIf...we ceased to protect the armies is bound to become political North Atlantic supply line to collaboration in action." The Britain and to Russia, we would 1 Chinese Central Daily News urged help to cripple the splendid counter- Russia "to take initiative and strike offensive by Russia against the first rather than wait to be struck Nazis....Today all the United Nations by Japan.". salute the superb Russian army as it Russian aid to China disclosed celebrates the 24th anniversary of as arriving at Alma, Ate. its assembly." Hungary: Appeal to the Hungarian people by the First Conference of Hungarian prisoners of war publiShed in IZMAIY2. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE - MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 FEB. 22 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 23 Central front:. Dorogobuzh, recaptured- by Reds. 25 i6 Northern front: 10-day battle around Staraya Russa ended with defeat of the 16th German Army. Hitlorts message from the Russian front to party chiefs: Although winter took Germans by surprise, there was no Napoleonic defeat. He announced preparations for the "final showdown." - GENERALTOREIGN RELATIONS :AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS Xdpan:- Tass denied Japanese reports that a Smriet diplomat was present among the foreign representatives who, 16 February, .congratulated the Imperial 'Army Headquarters on the, ? .capture of Singapore. Gt. Britain: Mr. Churchill congra- tulated the Russian Army ix-1.a message to Stalin expressing the admiration and gratitude? of the - British people. Similar telegrams were dispatched bY President Benos of Czechoslovakia, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Gen. De Gaulle, Mr. Tsudoros, Mr. Yovanovich, and ot4ers. Turkey: An attempt was made on the life of ,von Papen in Ankara. The ? 'culprits were said to be hiding . in .tho .Soviet: Embassy: ? (See'--- 7 March.) Red Armycongratulatod by President Reo6evelt,-Mr..Harriman, and Gen. FaymonVille. Ambassador LitVinov addressed the Overseas Press., Club and pleaded for a'second front in 'the. spring of 1942. - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Stalints order of the day (24th anniversary of the Red Army): It would be ridiculous to identify Hitlorts clique with the German people and the German state. _History teaches that Hitlers come and go, but the German people and the German state remain." Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 BATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS FEB. -27 28 MARCH 1 Russian advance Continued on ? southern,- central and northern front. German attempts to relieve 16th ? army trapped at Sturuya Russa frustrated. Russian offensives rapidly develop- ing in the Donets Basin, Crimea, and the Kursk area. 3 Russian advance continued south of Leningrad and in the Donets Basin. End of a long battle in the Kalinin area (cf. 5 Feb.) resulting in the recapture of 161 populated points by Soviet forces. Japan:? Naotaka Sato named Ambassa- dor to USSR, replaoing Lt. Gen. Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, Japan: Tess denounced as fabrications the allegations of a New york Times Berne dispatch stating that Japanese properties in the USSR had been seized; that there were Russian troop movements in the Sea of Okhotsk littoral; that the Tartary Strait had been mined; and that the Japamose military attaches were denied access to the front lines. 5 . Central front:.'T.ukhnov, 130.mileb . southwest of Moscow, retaken by:RedS. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Pervu.khin appointed Chemical Industry Commissar, - Kuybyshev: ? The ,seventh (War) symphony by' Shostakovich was perfermed? Uka* announced which allowed kelkhezes to cultivate.the unused lands of neighboring Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 7.1942 MOM 6 9 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS -.AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS 'SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Central front: Sychevka on the RZhev-Vyazma railroad retaken by Reds after 2-day battle. Kalinin front: Enemy.losses since ? 5 February were 49,700 officers- -and men; 161 populated places Were liberated. 10 Nbrthwestern front: Enemy losses since 22 February were at least 14000 casualties; 84 populated places were liberated. 12 Grand Duke Dimitri Paviovich, ant to the Russian throne, died in Switzerland. Turkey: Five Soviet citizens were arrested in Ankara for bombing Ambassador von Papen, as Turkish government blamed communists for the attack. (Cf. 24 Feb.) The Soviet embassy was surrounded by Turkish police. France (Free): Representatives of the National Committee, Garreau and Brig. Gen: Petit, arrived in Moscow, Turkey.: Izv2Ellya accused Nazis of the von Papen bombing (cf. 14 Feb., 7 March)4 and claimed Nazi plot to draw Turkey into the war. Iran: Ali Soheili government formed. Lend71ease: President Roosevelt reported to Congress on the first year's performance, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Ta-s,s dispatch 'claimed 40 ' French battleships had been turned over to Germany. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ? 53- - DATE ? 1942 MARCH 13 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAU-SOVIET'RELATIONS ? SOVIET 'INTERNAL AFFAIRS 14 Staraya Russa: Attack on the circled 16th German army reported. 15 Southern front: Heavy Russian attacks on Kerch and in the Donets basin reported. Hitler, in a rlin address, said Russian winter set in weeks earlier than expected, but he promised Russian defeat by September (cf. 26 April), France (Free): .Representative 9f the National Committee, Ms Garreau, received by V. Molotov,. . Gt. Britain: Ambassador Sir A. Clark Kerr arrived in Kuybyshev. 16 Southern front: Large Scale offen- sive by Timoshenko: Kharkov and Orel attacked; Kursk encircled. Ambassador Litvinov in his speech at the Economic Club in NeW York urged the opening of the second front. 17 Vatican: Bern dispatch reported letter from Stalin to Pope Pius proposinp; establishment of diplo- matic relations between Soviet Union and the Vatican. ,President Roosevelt ordered the War and Navy Departments to bring war ship- ments to Russia Up to schedule so - :that then total pledged could be com- pleted by June 30. 18 19 Germany: First conference of German junior officers, prisoners of war . in the USSR, reported in Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 :DATE '1942.. MARCH 20- MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 514 - GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS - AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET' INTERNAL AFFAIRS' Donets front: Heavy fighting, with large German losses, ,reported. ' 21- Kalinin front: End of 10--day fight (11-21 March) result- ing in 12,000 German soldiers killed. 22 Crimea: Heavy fighting continued at Kerch. American-built Airacobra fighters reported in action at the front by the Rod Starlarmy newspaper. Leningrad front: Enemy losses since 9 March 16,000 killed. 23 24 25 26 Japan:- Soviet-Japanese fisheries agreement (which expired 31 Dec.) renewed for one year in Kuybyshev. Rumania: The leaders of the Peasant and Liberal parties, in a message to Antonescul protested the dispatch of Rumanian troops to the Soviet- German front. Gt. Britain: Ambassador Sir A. Clark Kerr received by Molotov in Kuybyshev. Gt. Britain: Sir A. Clark Kerr presented his credentials to President Kalinin, Gt., Britain: Ambassador Maisky stated in London that while the United Nations were prepared for 1943, Hitler was preparing to win the war in 1942; he pleaded for a second front in 1942. Japan: Former Ambassador, Gen. Tateiawa President Roosevelt directed left Kuybyshev for Japan. - - U.S. officials to speed supplies to Russia. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE ? 1942 MARCH 27 28 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS -55- AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS 29 Kalinin sector: Five-day German counterattack repulsed by Reds. Murmansk coast: British and Russian warships repulsed large scale German attack on a British- American convoy. 30 31 Austria: Appeal to the Austrian people, by the first Conference of Austrian prisoners of war,? published in Pravda. Yugoslavia: Ambassador S. Simich arrived in Kuybyshev. Bulgaria: Premier Philov told the . Bulgarian Parliament: "Our fate is indissolubly linked to that of our allies"; pledged Bulgaria to the destruction of Bolshevism, "which has always constituted one of the greatest menaces for Europe and its civilization.a Gt. Britain: Ambassador Sir A. Clark Kerr received by Stalin, in the presence of Molotov. Japan: The new ambassador, N. Sato, arrived in Kuybyshev. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 .The Sovinformburo told about? the results of guerrilla ? warfare in the Leningrad sector and its great Signifi- cance in weakening the .foo. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 56 DATE MILITARY DE=PMENTS 1942 APRIL 1 2 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Central front: End of Russian offensive begun 23 March resulting in recapturing 161 localities, killing of 40,000 Germans. !Smolensk area: 'Large Red advances Hreported.. Rumania: Antonescu declared that Rumania intended to fight Russia to the finish; he said .We must destroy Bolshevism." Turkey: Beginning of the trials in Ankara of two Soviet citizens accused of organizing the attempted assassination of von Papen. Sweden: Taos denied Havas-OFI dis- patches ,Ind the Rome broadcast alleging that Haparanda had been bombed by Soviet planes. (See 6, 7 April.) Sweden: Mission in Moscow protested the bombing of Haparanda. Japan: Ambassador Sato received by V. M. Molotov. The Second All-Slav Congress opened in Moscow ,with an appeal to all Slav nations- ' for a.national. war of liberation. Lt. Gen. Khrulev appointed. Commissar of Transportation replacinglaganovich, who . retained Defense Council post.. Moscow curfew lifted for .Easter Church Service. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01: CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 7-. 8 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS Orel defenses admitted broken by Soviet advance. 10 Leningrad front: -Enemy losses since 1 April included 9,000-ki1led. . 12 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS Sweden: USSR government denied the bombing of Haparanda. Japan: Ambassador Sato presented his credentials to President Kalinin. Iran broke diplomatic relations _with Than. AMERICAN 'SOVIET RELATIONS ? Ambassador Standley arrived in Kuybyshev. Ambassador Standby stated in 'Kuybyshev that present U.S. commitments of supplies to Russia would be completed by the end of April. Ambassador Litvinov in a speecfi before the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in Philadel- phia urged "definite united efforts of the Soviet Union and Great Britain with some supplementary aid from the United States." Japan: Provda warned Japan on the Ambassador Standby received by first anniversary of the Russo- V. M. Molotov. Japanese neutrality pact against attacking Siberia; said that Russia would not initiate an attack. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - SOVIET INTERNAL'AFFAIRS ? _ . S. A. Lozovsky said in Kuybyshev that Nazis would be driven out of Soviet Union in 1942, and that American supplies were reaching Russian forces. Stalin awards forinventions, industrial improvements, and scientific work announced. Stalin awards for achievement in arts and letters were announced. a Decree on the Government Loan of 1942, announcing its beginning.' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 58 DATE 1942 ,AVRIL 14 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ' .GENERAL FOREIGN. RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS'. Ukraine front: TimeshenkoTs. forbes made 12 mile-break. in Nazi lines north. of?. Kharkov. _15? Bryansk attacked by Russians 'breaking threligh, first two lines ofdefense-, . ? 16 Northern front: Red advances ' in the Leningrad and Onega areas reported. 17 Central front: Russian advance in the Domiduv area northwest of Smolensk reported. 18 Karelian Isthmus:- Russian'advanco'.' against Finns reported.. Air:, Enemy losses since 22 March - ? were 891 planes, 20 Central front: Russians within artillery range of Smolensk. Increased ground and aerial fighting On-alI4rohts. Ambassador Standby presented his credentials to President Kalinin. The American bomber, which landed in Khabarovsk, was interned by Russians in accordance with the international lawn (cf. April 24). March lend-lease shipments were 150% more than in February. Decrees announced mobilizing all available men 14-55, and women 147!50? for farm labor; another decree increased the minimum Work hours on - collective farms. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 59 - DATE 1942 - ? MILITARY DEVELOPPENTS GEN]niL FJIGN RELATIONS APRIL 21 22 23 24 Leningrad: Surprise attack-by Reds below the city destroyed 120 German strongholds, 25 AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVTET INTERNAL AFFAIRS -Polish troops organized in Russia reported to be in Iran. Gt. Britain: Lord Beaverbrook stated in New York that the British people demanded a second front, denied that Stalin would make a separate peace, stated that Stalin accepted the Atlantic Charter in his presence, and ex- pressed entire agreement with it. Tass denied a New York Times dis- patch from Berne alleging that the American planes participating in the attack on Japan (cf. 18 April) used Siberian bases. U.S. 'Ambassador Standby received by Stalin in the presence of - Molotov; the conversations lasted for over an hour. Kuybyshev: Charge dtaffairos Chas. E. Dickerson, Jr., stated that the internment of U.S. fliers in Russia (cf. 18 April) was in accordance with international law. Soviet war loan (cf. 13 April) oversubscribed. 26 Hitler promised in Reichstag speech ? that next winter the Army in the East would be better armed and equipped (cf. March 15). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RD-P09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 APRIL 27 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS . GENE= FOREIGN RELATIONS . AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS. SOVIET INTERNAL liFFAIRS- 28 Russian forces hold the initiative on the entire Eastern .front. Approximate end of winter cam- paign. 29 30 Molotov's note to foreign dip- lomats charging the existence of a sy3L,,zatic German plan of depre- dation, maltreatment of prisoners and tile removal of Russian civil- ians (cf. 6 January). Yugoslavia: Ambassadcr Simich re- ceivA. by Molotov; later in the day he presented his credentials to Kalinin. ? President Roosevelt broadcast to the American nation: "On the European front the most impor- tant development of the past year has been the crushing offensive on the part of the groat armies of Russia.... These Russian forces are destroying more armed power of our onemies...than all the United Nations put together." Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS - GEN3LIL FCREIGN RELATIONS. AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS MAY 1 . Leningrad front: Victories through- .out April announced. 3 Ukraihe:.. Kharkov reported -by- passed as the .Russian offensive swept on between Poltava and, Dnepropetrovsk. 4 Southern 'front: Russian attacks made on Kharkov, Kursk, and Taganrog to forestall a Nazi offensive?(cf., May .31). Iran: Soviet Anti-Locust Expedition beL;-,.n its work (Cf. 1 Aug. 1943). Poland: Foreign Minister Rcczynski vies congratulated by V. M. Molotov on the occasion of the Polish National Holiday. Mongolian People's Republic and Panchoukue exchanged notes of ratification of the protocol and decuilients of the Mixed Boundary? Commissicn pertaining to the, areas of 1939 conflict.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Stalin's order of the day- for May Day declared: "We have no aim of seizing foreign territory or conquer- ing foreign peoples.... We want to free our Soviet land... LincludinE7 Moldavians..., Lithuanians, Latvians, Eston- ians.... We must destroy the German fascist army and the German invaders to the last man...." Red7Arm3t: A decree was issued providing for automatic-pro- motion of officers after, 3 months at the front. , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENER,L FCR1!;,IGN RELATIONS MAY 6 Crimea:. Beginning of German offensive on. the Kerch peninsula . 9 10 11 Crimea: German offensive launched. Foodesiya abandoned by Reds. AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Gt. Britain: Churchill broadcast .. rbport On the war: 4Tho BritiSh people who hove entered into the full comrdeship of war with our Russian all will not shrink from any sacrifice ?or trial which that comrdoship may require...." Ger- many was warned arFainst using poison gas on the Russian front. .Japan : Tho Soviet ship "Angarstroi" sunk by a Japanese submarine near the Jc...c.,anoso coast. Academy of Science: First foreigners since the revol- ution were elected as honorary members (3 Americans: Cannon, Lewis, Lawrence; 2 Britons: Dale and Haldan6). . Agriculture: Decree on the pay increases for tractor and farm machine operators, and on in-. crea-ses of yields of farm crops. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 1942 -MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 6-3, - GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS' AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS MAY 12 -Ukraine: Launching of a Russian offensive at Kharkov, and the beginning of the Summer cam- paign of 1942; beginning of a battle in depth in Kharkov . sector (cf. June 25). 13 Crimea: Soviet withdrawal on Kerch peninsula. 14 15 Ukraine: Tho Red offensive aimed , at Kharkov gained ground. 16 Crimea: Kerch claimed captured by Germans (cf. 20 'May). Kharkov sector: Red gains con- tinued. 17 18 Norway: Foreign Minister Trygve Lie congratulated by V. M. Molotov on the occasion of the Norwegian, naional holiday; answered by Lie on 19 May. Japan: Y. A. Malik Soviet ambassador placing Constatin announced as now to Japan, re- Smotanin. Communist Partyleader Earl Browder, pardoned by President Roosevelt, released from prison. . Norman H. Davis,. National Chairman reported American Red Cross aid, to Soviet Union in rodont months worth more than S3,500,000.. This aid will soon be doubled, he said. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 19)12 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS MAY GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS -AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS ,SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS 19 20 ? .Kerch evacuation announced by Reds (cf. 16 .May). Goering made ?a?speech attempting to justify the attack on Russia, and to excuse the lack of success on eastern front. 'Ukraine: Beg nning of German counter-drive (of. 5, 12 May) in the Izyum7.Barvenkovo.sector. 21 22 Ukraine: German. counter-attacks in Kharkov area repulsed. ' ? Gt. Britain: ,Foreign Commissar. V.M.,Molotov arrived in London. .Turkey: Tass denied German and ? Italian dispatches. alleging ? that on 20 May a Turkish motor ship hadfbeen-sunk. by a Soviet submarine near the ? entrance to ''the' Bosphorus, iThe Order of the Patriotic' War founded, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 65 - DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 , GENERAL FOREIGN .RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS MAY 25 . 26 28 Ukraine:_ Violent German attacks turned back In the Izyum-Barvenkovo sector. Gt. BrIStain: A 20-year: Mutual AsSis,tance Agreement signed by the USSR and Britain in London,. confirming joint action agree- ment,of 12.JuIy, 1941, and re- plaaing it by a formal treaty. Speeches exchanged by V.M. Molo- toI,and:A. Eden eAphasized the confidence that ihe(treaty would aid the final victory over the common enemy. Mr. Eden stated that never in the his- tory of the two countries was there as close a relation be.- tween Britain and Russia. . Japan: Premier Tojo stated in the Diet thatSoviet-Japanese relations had not,changed.. '(cf. 26 May).. Secretary Hull gave draft 4f a lend-lease agreement to, Litvinovs By accepting the Soviet Union would be obli- gated to liberalize postwar economid relations. Previous agreement had a provision for repayment within a specified time. (See .11 June.) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 D41TE MILITARY .DEVELOPMENTS 1942 .,....,..-GENERAL 'FOREIGN RELATIONS SOVIET RELATIONS *SOVIET:INTERNAL.,AFFAIRS MAX 29 30 31 Kharkov: German offensive _ reported by Timoshenko? with very large losses by both sides. , , JUNE 1 2 V.M. Molotowhrtived'in Washington on the invita- tion'vf President Roosevelt. the.eOurse.iof subsequent ,,conversations--full under-. standing was reached' with regard to the urgent taks of creatinga sen. front in Europe In 1942. Ambas- sador-LitvinoV, Harry Hopkins,. Gen. Nhrshall, Adm. King,. and Seer. Hull participated. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE 1942 MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS GENERAL FOREIGN .RELATIONS ?AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFIARS' JUNE 3 4 Moscow: Antiaircraft defense of Moscow credited with de.- stroying more than 1100 enemy planes since the begin- ning of the war.. 6 Crimea: Intensive Gorman assault on Sevastopol begun. 7 8 Finland.: Hitler Called on - Baron Mannorheim in Helsinki, in the -::)rcsence of Gen. Keitel. Iran: Amb&,sadorE. Saed left Kuybysh6V for Iran. ) Foreign Commissar V.M. Molotov .left.-WaShington. U.S. declared that a state of war existed With Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania U.S. Department of State warned Pinland that relations would be broken should Finlandis'collaboration with Germany)increaso. r) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 68 - DATE MILITARY bEVELOPMENTS 19hP ? -,GENERALFOREIQN,RELATI0NS ?AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JUNE 10 Ukraine; German offensive begun in Kharkov sector., 11 12 Gt. Britain: Secretary Eden's report to the Commons on the British Russian pact was fre- quently Interrupted by ap- plause. Canada? Agreement est'ablishing direct diplomatic relations withithe USSR wasgned in London, effective immediately, and not subject to ratification. Gt.' Britain: Anglo-Soviet com- munique on Molotov's visit in London, including the text of 26 May treaty,-publi,shed in Moscow, London, and Washington. The usual exchange of telegrams between Ki,ng George VT and Kalinin, and messages between Stalin and Churchill took place. Washington: A Mutual Aid Agree- ment was Signed between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. .(cf. Ph Sept. 1941; 1 Jan. 1942). A master lend-lease agreement. Exchange .? of notes between Ambassador Litvinov and Secretary Hull de- claringthe two earlier agree- ments superseded. The Soviet-American communique on Molotov's visit to Washington was published' simultaneously there and in Moscow and London. It stated that full agreement with respect to the immediate problem S of creating a second front was reached, and. the principal problems of U.S.- USSR cooperation in solving the problems of curity were discussed. , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS... 1942 GENERAL FoREIGN RELATIONS -69- AMERICAN savjET RELATIONS ? .SOVIET: INTERNAL AFFAIRS JUNE 13 ? 16 Gt. Britafri" Molotoy sent telegrams to Secretary Eden and Mr. "Churchill eJ,EpressIng gratitude for his welcorii and theiT pooperatien (answered, l5 .,June, by Eden). . Exchange of messages between President.Rdosevelt-and Stalln..expressing cati:on with the results of Molotov's visit in WaShingten. Molotov returned to Mos-. cow., Molotov sent telegrams ,expressing gratitude to .President Roosevelt and Secre- tary Hull. Day of the United Nations cele- brated in. the Soviet Union by raising the flags of the UnitedNations on all state and pub116'bUildings. ? 17 Crimea: Violent German attacks on the Sevastopol sector re- pulsed. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE, 1942 JUNE 18 21 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 MILITARY DEV.E LUPIEN T S GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMER ICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Gt. Britain: The Soviet rati fi ca- ..Molotov said the United States Molotov reported to the Supreme t; on of the treaty of 26 May ? had increased Soviet credit for Soviet on the Anglo-Soviet occurred in Moscow. suppli .es from one to three and Amer* can-Soviet treaties 'billion dollars. (cf. May 26, June 11). Cri meal German assault on Sevast-epol continued despite tremendous losses. President Kalinin In a speech said that American and British aid would help the Red ,Army to crush the German invader. 22 Kharkov front: New German of fel:IONE; Sp. the directi on ofc Krupyansk Was begun. ' ? 23 Moscow announced German casual- ties (10,000,?000), ?Scivi et casual- ties (4,500;9,00) ,during the first year of war. 2)1 Kharkov front:, Krupyansk taken by Germans who cut the rail- road to the l'onets basin; ap- oroxi mate end of Russian offens- i which began on 12 May. Gt. Britain: Churchill sent. .a message to Stall n 'on the anniversary of the German attack .upon the Soviet Union.. He promised all possible help, -and pral sed the treaty Of 26 May. Iran.: Mohammed Saed, former Ambassador to Moscow., appointed Foreign Minister.. Gt. Britain: Treaty with USSR rati fied by King George VI. France: Soviet communique announcing that during his vi sit :In London (21-26 May) V.M. Molotov conferred wlth _Gen. de Gaulle in the, presence of USSR Ambassador A.E. Bogomolov and the French National Committee Foreign Af- fairs Commi ssar M. Dejean. Molotov had confirmed to Gen.. de Gaulle the desire of the Soviet government to see France take her place In the world' as a ?great democrat; c anti - Hitler country. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 7 DATE -MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 GENERAL FOREIGN RELLTIONS AMERICAN SOVIET-RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JUNE 25 Northern front: Tikhvin and Kholm- reoapturea ty Germans.(cf. 8-Nov., .9 Dec. 1941). :Ukraine: Beginning of the great ? German Southern offensive.- - 26 27 28 Kursk area: ,German offensive be- . gun (cf. July 3). White House announcement that President Roosevelt. and'Mr. Churchill had had "e*tended and most important" discussions with the Russian Ambas- sador, at which Mr. Hull was also present. 'At the same time, British, American, and Russian military, naval, and air -officers had held - meetings. Joint statement of President Roosevelt and ference in Washington, D.C.:. "We recogni resistance to the main attack being made tionswwill divert German strength from Gt...Britain: An Anglo-Soviet Agree- ment for the financing of supplies . to Russia signed in Moscew (placing a further credit of 25 'million ? pounds at the dispOsal.of,the USSR Government). Sweden: .Tass issued a denial, of the sinking, on 22 June, of the Swedish ship Ada Gorthon by a Soviet sub- marine. Winston Churchill after con- ze and applaud the Russian by. Germany...Comling opera- the attack on Ruseia." a Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 "Free Italians": Declaration t. the Italian People and armed.force-5 of. the first conference of Italian prison- ers of war in Russia published in Soviet press: The framework of the incomplete Palace of Soviets was dis- mantled for its steel. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 72 - DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS' SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 1 SeVastepol capttred by Germans After 8 months' siege (cf. Nov. ? 2, 1941; 3 July 1942). 2 Kharkov front: New German offens- ive toward Belgorod,and Volochansk begun. Central front: German drive to out-. , flank Russians southwest of Rzhev begun: beginning of a 12 day battle (of. 'Aug. 4), 3 Sevastopol evacuation announced by Russians (cf. July 1). . Kursk area: German offensive-, . renewed (cf. June 28) spear- headed by 1000 tanks and 3000 planes: 4 Kursk area: After .a seven day . tank battle the Russians fell -back'in one sector. Sweden: Official announcement made ? that the Soviet Government had- 'orally rejected Sweden's protest? . against the sinking of the iron ore ship Acla Gorthon in Swedish territorial water.s. . . . Turkey: M. Achikalin.appointed ? ? Ambassador tORUssia. T Gt.. Britain: Exchange?of ratification notes of Mutual Assistance Agreement (26 May) in MosboW. Exchange of telegrams between. President.Roosevelt on: the occasion of. the American national holiday. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 73 _ DATE , MI LIT.ARY DEVELOPMENTS 19142' . JULY 5 GENERAL: FOREIGN .RELATIONS Kursk area: Germans claimed to have penetrated the Russian positions between Kursls and Kharkov, reachi ng the Don riVer near Voronezh. Kharkov area: Oskol r. ver crossed by Germans, between Stary Oskol and Valuiki Voronezh sector: Violent fighting as German offensi?ve continUed west of Voronezh and southwest of Stary Oskol. Voronezh capture (wrongly) claimed by. Germans (cf. July 15), ? 8 Voronezh sector: Stary Oskol eva- cuated by Reds. Kursk area: Very strong thrust be,- gun by GerMans to cross the Don river; stopped by Reds. 10 -Voronezh sector: Red counter- offensive to re eve pre sSure on Voronezh begun. Southern front: German drive un- checked: Rososh evacuated by Reds. AMERICAN SOVIET. RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Sweden: Government irfformed by the Sovi et Government that the sinking of the Ada Gorthon was not caused by a Russ i an submarine: Japan: Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik', new Soviet Ambassador, presented h-is le tterS of credence to the Emperor. Netherlands: An agreement establish- ing diplomatic re lati ons with the USSR was signed n London. Declassified in Part -j Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/06/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY. DEVELOPMENTS, - 1.9)1? GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET REIATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 11 0 Voronezh sector: Germans crossed the Don near Voronezh; violent fighting on the approaches to Voronezh, near Kantemi rovka and Li si chansk. 12 Southern front: German dri ve continued; Li si chansk and Kantemirovka evacuated by Reds. 13 Voronezh sector.: German storm of the city begun n force.. ? Southern front.: German ?drive continued; Boguchar and - ? ? Miller aye evacuated by Reds;? Germans approaching Artemovsk, . Gorlovka, Makeyevka, Voro- shilovgrad. A break-through, which was - the beginning Of the _drive on -,..Stalingrad 'and into Caucasus., occurred.. Sweden; Tass 'denied further allege.- ti ons by Swedish newspapers that Sovi et subniari ne s Were r e s_ponsib 1 e for a seri es of incidents :in Swe- dish terri torlal water's. Poland: Polish .Ambassador,? Prof. S. Kot, left Kuybyshev for Lon- don after completi ng his mission (establishing Poll sh-Russian re- ' lati ens on the basis of agreement; setti n-g. up an org,ani zati on. te look after- 1,500,000 Poles in Russia). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS A1VER.ICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET ,INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 15 -Voronezh siege begun by Germans (cf. July 7). Boguchar and Mi lle rovo evacuated by Reds. Southern front: Pravda published a sti rri ng appeal to stem the tide, dedlari ng that the enemy - was now pushing towards Stalin- grad, "the solar plexus of our country, so that it was now "a 'battle for life or death., 16 Donets Basin: Voroshi lovgrad evacuated by Reds. = 17 Don bend: The railroad con- necting the Donets with Stalingrad cut by Germans. Central front: Russ i an counter- attacks progressing in the Orel and Bryansk area-s. Japan: The Foreign ster 'stated ? that relations with'Russia were ?sti 11 regulated by the Neutrality Treaty. The Soviet Government had assured Japan that the recent ?Anglo-Sovi et Treaty a.nd the Sovi et - Ameri ce.n agreement contained no clause relating to Japan. . Japan: Pre/ill er Tojo reported the ' reassurance of Soviet neutrality to his-government. U.S. -closed its consular. office in Helsinki and requested Finland to -close consulates in the U.S.. not later -than August-i. Turkey: Alleges Russian bomb throw- ers sentenced by a- Turkish court - (cf. 2, 2)i Feb.; 7, 9, March; . 17 Oct). Spain: Gen. Franco proclaimed a ? law for the creation of the Spani .sh Cortes; stated that Comrn.uni, sm. was the . chief danger to Europe, that Spain had defi- nitely committed herself-to fighting It 'six years ago, and would fight it again if, it . threatened her frontiers. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 PATE MILITARY' DEVELOPMENTS 19h2 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS 'SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS JULY 18 Southern front: Lower Don River reached bY Germans'east of. ? Rostov. Voronezh sector: Reds counter- 'attacked and held the initia- tive. 20 Voronezh sector:. Situation was reversed, by Russians crossing the Don In force. 21 Lower Dom Russian withdrawal continued. 22 Voronezh sector: Germans evacuating the east bank of the Don River. ? - Lauer Don: Germans claimed having crossed the Don river, and threatening Rostov from the east. Gt. Britain: 'Anglo-Soviet week. in- augurated at Aldershott; Mr. Lyttelton disclosed large ship- ments of tanks and planes to the USSR. Yar Germany: V81kischer. Beobachter stated that Britain, and not _ Russia or the USA; was Germany's real enemy; declared that the war on Russia was only to create eco- nomic conditions for Lebensraum and regulate the frontier situa- tion. Goebbels reported in- Structing all German newspapers to drop anti-Russian references. Norway.(Lendon).:.statement of 'peace aims included the abandonment of a Nordic defense block, establish- ment of a revived and greater League of Nations, with Norway acting as a "bridge betkeen the Atlantic power and the Soviet Union." Moscow. dispatches stated that the : Soviet-Air Force had been re.t enforced with American-made bombers. ? ? Litvinov conferred With President _ Roosevelt and stressed the : . urgency' of opening a second ?European front IMmediately'to relieve the embattled Russian's. ? Kalinin's address on the object- . Ives of propaganda at the Front. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE .MILITAMr. DEVELOPMENTS' 1942 - JUL/ 23 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS: SOVIET INTEL AFFAIRS Rostov capture by storm clamed by Germans (of. 27 July). Beginning of German drive into the Caucasus. '-Lower Don: Novocherkask 'capture'? claimed by Germans (cP. 27 July Stalingrad drive: Approximate beginning of German drivet.with ? Germans crossing the Don at Tsymlyanskaya (halfway. between Rostov and Stalingrad), and - advancing towards the greet? Don'bend from Kamensk. 26 Voronezh. sector: -Don foreed by -Russlans?-in'three'addltional places! . ? . , Stalingrad drive.: Russian lines forced at Chirskaya (60 miles southwest. of Stallngrad). 27 _Lower Don: Batalsk reached by .Germans. Russians announced ? the'evacuAtion of-Rostov And 'Novocherkask (of. July A, 25). Stalingrad drivel A large tank ' battle on. approaches to Kalach: Sweden: Diplomatic representations Made tORUsSia following the bomb- ing of the Baltic Island of OeIand. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -76- DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 19)42 JULY 28 GENERAL FOREIGN. RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET .RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Lower Don: Germans crosed the Don River, captured Olginskaya. Stalingrad drive: Kalach capture claimed by Germans. Central front: German attack near .Rzhev was driven back. 29 Stalingrad.drivel In the Battle . of the Don bend ? Timoshenko be- gan throwing in his reserves. A fierce battle waS developing' around Kletskava. ? Lower Don: The Germans ad- - vancing on a 50 mile frOnt, Captured Proletarskaya. ? 31 Lower -Don: Germans claimed capture of Kushchevsk, ad- vancin on a 150 mile front towards.Salsk. Beginning of a three pronged attack on the Sea of 'AZOV. Poland .(London): Gen. Sikorski broadcast a message on the first ' anniversary of the signing of the- Polish-Soylet Treaty., which he described' as opening a new era between Poland and Russia, and. stated that common hatred of the Germans. was One of the Chief pillars of Russo-Polish under- standing. Trade agreement of 1937 re- newed in Washington to 6 Aug. 1943.' ? Pravda madean.urgent appeal for ending the retreat in South Russia. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 79- DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS .19/42 GENERAL FOREIGN RELIZIONS AMERICAN 'SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS AUG., 1 2 ,Voronezh sector: End of aotive phase.. Lower Don:? Yeisk on the Sea of Azov, and Selsk, claimed taken by Germans-. 3 Caucasus drive: Voroshilovsk reached by Germans. Stalingrad drive: Kutelnikov,- . on Stalingrad railroad, taken by Germans. ,Central front: Beginning of a strong, Red drive headed by ? Zhukov, diredted at the Rzhev- Vyazma salient (cf. 11 Aug). .5 . caui,,aaus drive: ?Kropotkin cap- tured by Germansl.the ?Kuban river reached on a 60 mile, front. 6 Caucasus drive: Tikhoretsk claimed by Germans. _Norway: '211c; Soviet Union and Norway agreed to raise their. legations. to embassies. ? (See . 9 Sept.) Turkey: JeVad Ahikalin, the new Ambassador, left for Russia., Gt. "Britain1 .Czechoslovakia: Munich Agreement denounced in an exchange - of notes. Trade agreement extension (cf. 31 July) ratified simul7 'taneouSly In Moscow' arid Washing- ton. Moscow: Maj. Gen. Bradley arrived on a special war aid mission. Admiral Standley, the American ambassador, arrived in Moscow. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY:DEVELOPMENTS- 1942 *GENERALJOREIGN RELATIONS. ' AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS AUG. 7 ?aucasus_drive: Armavir was the Center of heavy fighting. CaucasuS. drive: German break- through near Armavir admitted. , The Germans were advancing from 2 directions on Malkop. Malkop oil-wells set on fire by Reds.- Caucasus drive: Maikop taken by Germans (cf. 20.AUg.). Caucasus foothills claimed reached by ?Germans on a 250-mi1e front. - 10 Caucasus drive: Pyatigorsk cap- ture claimed by Germans. Stalingrad drive: West of Kalach, a Red army was claimed to be trapped by Germans. 11 Stalingrad drive: German break- through,- south of-Kletskayaj-_. admitted by Reds. ? Central front: Zhukov's Rzhev- Vyazma drive (cf. Aug. 4) became a full-fledged offensive along a front. of 70 miles ? (cf. 26 August). Poland: Exchange of telegrams be- 'tweenGenSikorski and'Marshal StalinontlleoceasiOn of the - first anniversary.of the signing of the PolishRussian agreement. Iran: Quayam es-Zultaneh (head of a new government), stated in Parlia- meht that the relations between Iran and Great 'Britain and Russia would be. based on the Treaty of Alliance. Moscow: Gen. Bradley disavowed ?that his mission had anything to do with the second front, but dealt with speeding up deliveries from the U.S. to the USSR. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01: CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 - 81 - DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS 19)12 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS , - AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTLRNAL AFFAIRS AUG. 12 13 Stalingrad drive: Eli sta.,- on the approaches to Astrakhan, cap- tured by Germans (farthest advance in this direct; on). Caucasus drive: Heavy fighting near. Cherkessk and Krasnodar,. with large German losses. War conferences in Moscow . (12-16 August) between Churdhi. 11 and Stali n (their first meeting), Turkey: Ambassador Jevad Achikalin arrived in Kuybyshev. 15 Summary of operati ons s nce 15 May released by Sovi nform- buro (19 August): German losses, 480,000 killed, 770,000 captured and wounded; 3,390 tanks, 4,000 planes; Soviet . losses, 606,000 killed, wounded or lost; 2,240 tanks, 2198 planes. 16 Stalingrad drive: Don bend: France: (Fighti ng).: Validity of Germans clamed breaking through passports recognized by the USSR the Russian post ions, reaching and other nations. the river in the northern loop of the bend. Caucasus: Mai kop evacuated by Reds. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 The Jewish Anti .4asci st Corn- m4.ttee issued an account of the ki11ng in Minsk of:. 72,000 Jews. Moscow: V.M. Molotov appointed first vi ce-chairman.of Council of People's Commissars for all questions related to the work of the. Supreme. Soviet. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 , .82 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS. 19142 AUG. 17 GENERAL.FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN -SOVIET RELATIONS -- SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Stalingrad drive: Battle of Don bend ended as Germans claimed having reached the. Don at all points. - Official announcements (dated 18 August) issued similtaneously in Moscow and London diSclosing the return of Mr. Churchill-from MoScow negotia- tions with Stalin which included also Harriman, Molotov, Voroshilov, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald Wavell, Brig. Spalding (head of Russia lend-lease) and Mr. Roy .Henderson. Ambassador Harr5Jman recorded on ' sound film a statement 5n which he said that the President of the USA would adhere to all the decisions which-Mr. Chur- chill might take 5.n Moscow. 18 Stalingrad drive: Don Basin. Gt. Britain: Churchill sent a mes- claimed to.be.entirely in .the hands of the Germans. A. series of fierce Red atta.cks.south,of sage of gratitude to Stalin. Stalingrad forced Germans to fall back. 19 Caucasus drive: Minerulnye Vody admittedly evacuated by Reds. 20 Caucasus drive: Krasnodar cap- ture admitted by Reds (cf. 9 Aug.). Stalingrad drive: Bridgehead secured by. Reds on the Don River near Kletskaya. ? - 21 Stalingrad drive: Kutelnikovo Turkey: Ambassador Achikalin re- sector: .A large scale motorized advance begun by Germans. ceived by V.M. Molotov. Caucasus drive i Breakthrough by Germans in Pvatigorsk admitted by the Russians. President Roosevelt announced at a press conference Mr. Wendell Wilkie's mission to the USSR and the Near East as a special representative. ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -83- DATE MTtITARY DEVELOPMENTS 1942 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS' ? AMERICAN SOVIET RELATiONS SOVIET INTERNAL_ AFFAIRS _ AUG. 22 Stalingrad drive: Germans crossed strength. Caucasus drive: by Germans. At Kletskayat the Don in Krymskaya claimed Centralfronti Russian offensive in the Orel sector launched. Caucasus drive: Prokhladnaya (85 miles from Grozny) reached - by Germans. 25 Caucasus drive: Rumanian troops captured Temryuk on the Sea of Azov, and claimed mastery of the whole eastern coast. Nazi' flag reported hoisted on Mt. Elbrus. Turkey: Ambassador J. Achikalin: presented his credentials to M.T. Kalinin. Belgium: The Anbassader presented his credentials to M.I. Kalinin. . . 26- Caucasus drive: Mozdok region, Gt. Britain:, The Home Secretary re- on the edgeof.Grozny oil fields, moved the ban on the London Daily reached byGermans. General ad- Worker and The Week. vance checked at this pont. Central front: Rzhev-Vyazna- drive ? (cf. 11, 31 Aug.), Reds announced routing nine German divisions, advancing 25-30 miles. Stalingrad: Russians admitted the situation had reached its most critical point. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 E. YaroSlaVsky broadcast a -plea to reconquer the North Caucasus and the Kuban area, and indicated the danger of Germans cutting the Volga, ? Securing Baku oil. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 8)4 DATE 19)42 AUG.. 27 MILITARY DEVELOPMENT S GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN .SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL. AFFAIRS 28 Stalingrad: A seri es of Red 'counterattacks northwest of city stopped German advance. First German attempt to storm the city by surpri-se frustrated. 29 Central front: First line of Rzhev -.defenses claimed pierced .by ??'Rus- sins. ? Leningrad: - Renewal ?of German at- tack ijidicated. Stalingrad dr; ve 3 Following a break through by motorized troops, the Germans were approaching the outskirts of Stalingrad. (cf. 12 Sept.). SEPT. 1 .Caucasus dri ye: Anapa on the Black Canada": Wheat shipments to Russia Sea . reached by Germans following in large amounts announced by break through- defenses at Mouth the Minister of Trade. ? of the Kuban Ri ver. ? German and Ri.).mani?an troops passed across the Kerch straits-. -7 Gen Zhukov appointed Stalin' s First Deputy as Commissar of Defense. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE III LI TARY DEVELOPLENT S 19)12 GENERAL FDREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS - SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPT. 2 5 7 Caucasus dri.ve: Juncti on of two German forces effected at Taman peninsula. Stalingrad d ye: We stern sub? urbs, reached by Germans. Caucasus dri vet Terek bri dge - heads won by Germans. Caucasus drive t Russi an resi st- ance reported brought to end in the Taman area; Novorossi sk cap- ture dal med by Germans (cf. Sept. 11-12). ? Yugoslavia: Agreement WI th the USSR, . n London, for ra sing of Legati ons . " to rank of Embassies (cf. ? 9 Sept.). Bulgari a: Sovi et Government decided to close consulate at Varna (cf. 7, 24 Sept.). Gt. Bri tain:. The . Soy; et Ambassador ? -stated n London that hus Sian - lbsses- averaged ? between 6,000 and 7,000 a day. Bulgari a: Bulgarian Mini star to the USSR noti ed of decl si on by USSR government to close consulate at Varna (oft 24 Sept.). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Communist party Chief of ' Propaganda Dept. announced that the 4th year of the war would bring the de struc - ti on of Hit1e ri sm. German losses exceeded 10,000,000 men; buss-la's losses;. 4,500,000.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ?19)4.2 GENERAL :FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPT. 8 Sp.lingrad: Capture- of command- ing heights clamed by GermanS. 11 Caucasus drive: Street fighting still reported in Novorossisk. 12 Caucasus drive: Novorossisk cap- ture completed by Germans (cf. Sept. 6). Stalingrad drive: German break through reached outskirts of Stalingrad from southwest. ? Germans in position to launch a direct assault. Central front: . Red ad-Vance to wards Mga Junction continued, notwithstanding violent German ? resistance. Canada: -Agreement with the uan signed In London whereby a stock ' of Canadian wheat (to 9 million bushels) might be drawn _upon by. Russia on credit. Norwegian, Yugoslav, and Czech jegations raised to rank of Embassies. Norway: Ambassador R. Andvord presented Credentials to M.I. Kalinin., W.A. Harriman, at Russian War Relief dinner in New York, said "quick and increasing material aid" must be given the Soviet Union, because its "hope springs from us." He stated that Russia wanted America to keep Japan fully occupied in the Pacific so that she could not attack -Siberia. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 -87- ? DATE MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ? 1942 - GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET REIATIONS. SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS SEPT. 13 14 Caucasus drive: Terek bridgehead: Russians forced back. Stalingrad drive: Dominant hill northwest of city occupied by Germans; deterioration of situ- ation'on all three sides of city reported by Rusaians.? 15 Stalingrad: Main railroad station captured by Germans. . 16 Stalingrad drive: Germans claimed penetrating the 'city and reaching the Volga in the northwest and central sectors. 18. Voronezhtsector: Reds reported opening.an-offensive from four directions: M. Garreau, Minister for the. Fighting French National Com- ? -mittee, left Moscow for Caro. Belgium: ,Bogomolov, USSR Ambassador to the .Polish and Norwegian govern- ments.appointed Soviet Minister to Belgium also. Bulgarian police raided the Soviet consulate in Varna, and the Soviet mi:hister protested. Japan: New Foreign Minister, Masayuka Tani, told the press that there was no change 4n Japan's policy with respect to the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union: Mr. Harriman returned to London from a visit to the USA to re- port to President Roosevelt. In 6th tend-Lease report, Presi- dent Roosevelt.said_35% of this aid was going to the,Soviet Union. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Pravda published a battle-cry ?to.the defenders of Stalin- grad: "Death rather than surrender. The Red Army swears to hold Stalingrad and to defend the Fatherland .to the death." Stalin ssued an order to the , troops at Stalingrad to take the offensive and make a supreme effort for viotory. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000.100020001-3 ? 88 - DATE MILITARY. DEVELOPMENT S 19/42 SEPT. 19 ? GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AlPFAIRS Cauca st'ls (East):- Initative re- ported passing to the Russians I n Mozdok area. 20 Voronezh sector: German counter- attacks repulsed, begi riling four day-s hard fi ghti ng. Stalingrad,: Germans reached the harbor di -stri 21 Len i ngrad-Voikhov front,: Rus?S'i an gai n.s at Volkho claithed. 22 Iran: Ambaeqador Maj-ld Ah l received by J.V. Stalin n the presence of V.M. Molotov. ' ? Finland: The Fi nni sh Legation in . Washington issued a statement asserting that Finland 'wants to cease fighting as Soon as the ? . threat to her existence had been averted and' guarantee s have been obtained for her lasting security" It was stated, however; that no - -peace proposals had been made to - Finland-. Moscow: Mr. ? Wi.1.1k1 e arrived. ? .He stated in press conference Russia's need of the second ? front, and claimed Stalingrad front, as much .a Brit; sh and Arne ri can front as a Russian!, "because 'thi war is' global na fur e." Moscow.: . W liki e and the Ameri- can Ambassador were received by Molotov; Austral; It was learned that 30,000 sheepskins were be ng pre- sented by the Australian Red Cross to the Red Cross of the USSR for s ck and wounded Russian troops and for women and chi ldren. Moscow:News (1 n Kuybyshev) said that TTEZ huge British and Uni ted States armies are mere b,ystanders", While the war was bei ng decided at Stalin- grad. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/01 : CIA-RDP09-02295R000100020001-3 89 - DATE ? MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ' 19)12 SEPT. 23 26 GENERAL FOREIGN RELATIONS AMERICAN SOVIET RELATIONS SOVIET INTERNAL AFFAIRS Caucasus (west): German attack from Mai kop towards Tuapse re - vealed. Leni ngrad: Red, garri son reported across the Neva, attacking Ger- mans below SchltIs se lburg. Stall ngrad: More points on the Volga reported reached by Ger- mans. Stall ngrad: Further German break- through n northwest part of city by two fresh di vi si.ons. Bulgari a: Tess denied that Sovi et planes bombed 'Bulgari a. Bulgari.a: Reports from Vichy and Berlin elle ging: the closure of Sovi et consulate at Varna den. ed by the .Sovi et government (cf. 5, 7 Sept.). Japan: Masa.yul