Fundamental War Strategy Alters in Weekly Analysis
Roger Shaw argues the German aim to crush Britain by land sea and air shifts as England and Europe face new pressures. He outlines Churchill plans to delay offensives then blockade Europe to provoke famine, possibly drawing the United States from isolationism toward intervention.
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England
Germany
United States
Italy
Malta
Spain
Gibraltar
Japan
Hongkong
Britain
Portsmouth
Cardiff
Edward VIII
Duke of Windsor
Europe
Winston Churchill
Hitler
NAMES in the news and political shifts of 1940
In a mosaic of 1940 political and international notes Mayor LaGuardia urged universal military service. Quezon urged independent thinking. Dornier planned study in the U.S. as wartime aircraft massing looms. German release of prisoners and shifts in European powers frame a tense prewar era. Roosevelt third-term debate, Wallace and Farley roles, party realignments, and Willkie’s humble stance echo shifting old and new guard dynamics.
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New York City
LaGuardia
Manuel Quezon
The
Philippines
Francis Sayre
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Washington
Europe
Henry Wallace
McNary
Wallace
Ickes
Stimson
Knox
Hopkins
Miss Perkins
Oil movement in war would include major US shipments
Large oil shipments flowed from American Texas to Spain and from South America to Europe. About 20 million barrels had left the United States in eight months of war. Washington officials debated how much, if any, Hitler received, some suspecting Germany got more oil from the U.S. than from Russia.
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Spain
Texas
Venezuela
Colombia
United States
Hitler
Washington
Germany
America
Russia
Hitler Talks On Radio And Reich's Military Rise
Hitler’s radio address praised as rational and sought an honorable peace while reviewing conquests and diplomatic wrangles with Chamberlain and Daladier. Britain’s leaders shuffled generals, debated appeasement, and Japan aligned with Germany and Britain’s foreign office amid global tension.
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Hitler
Lord Haw-Haw
British Empire
England
Chamberlain
Daladier
Pacific Coast
Goering
Reich
Greater
Germany
Burma Road
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Hull
Burma
China
Chiang Kaishek
State Department
Orient
New Tongue for Old Helps Immigrants Learn English
The New York Board of Education offers adult classes for foreign-born residents to learn English. Despite the effort, learners often pick up current slang first, as shown by photos of adults in language lessons and progress.
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New York
Jovsim Bors
New York Board of Education
Red Cloud
San Blas
America
Hollywood Winners and Radio Stars From A Virginia Vale Roundup
A long Western Newspaper Union summary covers screen star Madeleine Carroll's safe return to New York and plans to work in Virginia. It recalls Rowena Cook formerly Alice Eden, now Rowena pursuing an acting career, and notes Jack Benny Fred Allen film leads. Also mentions Truth or Consequences creator Ralph Edwards and The Merry Macs with Helen Carroll joining as fourth member.
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Edward Griffith
Paramount
Virginia
Madeleine Carroll
New York
Paris
Tunisia
Charlottesville
Hollywood
Alice Eden
Rowena Cook
Rowena
Edward Small
Kit Carson
Merry Macs
Fred Allen
al Pearce
Helen Carroll
University of Indiana
Easy to Make and Wear Dress Pattern 1966-B
A Barbara Bell pattern shows design No 1966-B an easy to make tubbable dress with five pieces and simple darts. It features a slim unrestricting waist and front fastening for easy wear in seersucker linen percale or gingham. Sizes 12 through 40 with busts 30 to 40. size 14 requires 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch material. order by mail.
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Barbara Bell
Court of Missing Heirs Reward Promises Discovery Clue
Readers are told a fifty dollar reward may be awarded for any lead uncovering missing heirs sought on the program. Other items note Ray Milland taking a two thousand dollar life policy on two rubber trees imported from Java for his garden and a items about Preston epee hat applying for a button in the sword club. A seven den of haknd fly inal landed a 275 sh, entitling him to the pound rey.
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Ray Milland
Java
Preston
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Western Newspaper Union
Churchill
British Isles
Claude Dornier Jr
Dornier
Eugene Mittelhauser
Mittelhauser
Max Weygand
France
Farley
Willkie
Alan F. Brooke
Southern Command
Home Forces
Edmund Ironside
Oliver Cromwell
Ironsides
Ironside
Viscount Gort
Flanders
Gort
Brooke
II Corps
Scientific Food Ministry
Adolf ‘Hitler
Fuehrer
Hyman Epstein
Poland
Hyman
Jeanne Leyman
la Belle
Octerina Dilando
Angelina
Dilando
Lena Ginsberg
Frits Woeffel
Austria
Virginia Vale
Jack Benny
Mary
Martin
Rochester
Virginia Dale
Theresa Harris
Ralph Edwards
Red
Edwards
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Colton
Massinger
Sioux
City
Mayfair Coffee Shop
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