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Nazis Drive Ahead – 2
Where the Nazi War Machine Made its Way into Russia (photos) – 3
Red Defense Firm – 3-5
British Open ‘V’ Nerve War; Churchill Spurs Resistance – 5-6
Navy is Not Getting Priority, Says Vinson – 5
Asks Annapolis Increase to Train Latin Americans – 6
The International Situation – 6
New Soviet Army Believed Massing – 7
Beirut Discloses Nazi Effort There – 7 *
The Nazis Take a Boat Ride on the Eastern Front (photo) – 8
German Air Ace Meets His Chief (photo) – 8
Swiss and Reich Sign Trade Accord – 9
Urges Listed Firms be Nationalized – 9
Leopold is Reported Firm in Spurning All Offers to Cooperate with Nazis – 9
Advocates End of National State – 10
45% in Who’s Who Want Us in War – 10
United States Marines Make a Landing in North Carolina (photos) – 11
Day’s War Communiques – 12
Commissar Captives Segregated by Nazis – 12
Netherlanders’ Cheers for Britons are Banned – 12

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 13
The Arena of the Greatest Battle in History (map) – 14
Hitler is Slowed Up by Russian Resistance (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
Merchant Marine Losses-British, Allied and Neutral (chart) – 16

The New York Times Book Review
American in Arms: The Experience of the United States with Military Organization, by Brig. Gen. John McAuley Palmer, U.S.A. (Retired). Reviewed by Hanson W. Baldwin – 18-19

*A.C. Sedgwick, last heard from April 13 in Athens, reports today from Beirut, Syria. (Syria?)

"Hitler went to war believing that the struggle against Bolshevism might lead the Anglo-Saxon countries to end the conflict. Von Ribbentrop did not agree; in fact, he was convinced that Churchill is ready to make an alliance even with the devil himself if he can only destroy Nazism. And this time he was right. Now the struggle is hard and bloody, and the German people, who are tired, wonder why." - Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano
"The Russian is very strong and fights desperately, driven by his commissars. Worst of all are the forest battles. Everywhere the Russian suddenly appears and shoots, attacking columns, single transports, dispatches, and so on. The war here is without doubt very bad and to this must be added the tremendous road difficulties, the enormous spaces, the unending forests, the difficulties with the language and so on. All past campaigns seem like child's play in comparison with the present war. Our losses are heavy..." - General Gotthard Heinrici
"The grueling battles involving some groups of our motorized forces, in which the infantry arriving from the west can only slowly become involved, together with the time taken on bad roads which restrict movement and the exhaustion of the troops who have been marching and fighting without rest, have dampened the spirits at high command. Nowhere is this better seen than in the thorough despair into which Brauchitsch had been plunged. However there is really no call for this." - Franz Halder
Heinrich Himmler tasks the SS police leader in the Lublin district, Odilo Globocnik to prepare the Lublin region to be Germanized by expelling all the Jews and Poles from the area.
Stalin informs Timoshenko of his order to mount a major counter-attack to try to break the Soviet units trapped in Smolensk out and to recapture the city.
Zhukov orders the Western Front reinforced by four armies of the Stavka's Front of Reserve Armies. These forces are ordered to conduct a counteroffensive to rescue the 16th, 19th and 20th armies around Smolensk.

More on Major General Butler. After seeing his service history and can understand his perceptions of war, industry and politics. I would have liked to have met him. I wonder what that squad of marines were thinking?:

During a training exercise in western Virginia in 1921, he was told by a local farmer that Stonewall Jackson’s arm was buried nearby, to which he replied, “Bosh! I will take a squad of Marines and dig up that spot to prove you wrong!”[27] Butler found the arm in a box. He later replaced the wooden box with a metal one, and reburied the arm. He left a plaque on the granite monument marking the burial place of Jackson’s arm; the plaque is no longer on the marker but can be viewed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield visitor’s center.[27][

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler