Armistice Terms Roil Britain As Europe Cools War Fervor
In a London sourced view, Britain denounces the French armistice terms with Germany and Italy as the fighting ends on the continent. Churchill rebukes Petain while fears grow of a broader German victory, contrasting Versailles 1919 penalties with today’s terms. Roosevelt adds two conservative cabinet appointees to lead army and navy as U.S. debates aiding Europe and building a two ocean fleet.
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Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Low Countries
France
Germany
Italy
London
Berlin
Rome
Paris
Hitler
Henri Petain
Winston Churchill
Petain
England
Versailles
Europe
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Names in the News amid World Turmoil Unrest and Exile
The report lists figures including Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot fleeing to Portugal after ousting King Leopold, Alfred Duff Cooper urging Czech resistance as German advances surge, and U S Ambassador Bill Bullitt facing Parisian discontent amid prewar efforts. It notes anonymous sailors deserting an oil tanker bound for England and rumors of strained embassy staff in Paris.
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England
New Jersey
Hubert Pierlot
Leopold
Portugal
France
Hitler
Alfred Duff Cooper
Bohemia
Paris
U. S
Bill Bullitt
Republicana Read Out Supposes Party Split Over Nationalism
The Republicans condemned Stimson and Knox as Roosevelt signals that Philadelphia is placing partisanship above U S nationalism. The counterclaim labels it totalitarianism. Knox is said to claim the President agreed not to seek a third term, while Roosevelt’s position remains uncertain. Earlier the President mocked coalition cabinets as cockeyed. Events grow more tangled.
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Stimson
Knox
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
U. S
Red Cross Reports on War Prison Camps Abroad
International Red Cross officials inspected war prisoner camps in England France and Germany and found them humane and decent. They noted a ratio of 10 Anglo French prisoners to every German in Allied hands and reported a quarter million Polish workers in labor battalions. The group also handled nearly a million prisoner letters back home and cited limited atrocity data from Poland alongside related findings.
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International Red Cross
England
France
Germany
The
Red Cross
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Poland
Americans fear war jitters as bombs shock New York
Margaret Woodrow Wilson reportedly found happiness in a secluded Indian mystic sect while Harvard grads debated a policy of staying out of European wars. John Lewis defended Hoover, doctors warned of a war nerves epidemic, and twin bombings outside German agency and Communist HQ injured ten. Census shows New York at 7.44 hundred million, Queens leading population gains. Tokyo ranks second city. London declines.
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Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Marge
Harvard
Echo
John Lewis
Hoover
New York City
Communist Party
Dewey
Queens
Bronx
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Tokyo
London
War Reactions Across Allies and Axis Fronts
A roundup of wartime responses across nations. England and Germany exchanged air strikes with the English bombing Berlin suburbs while Germany hit the English coast. Canada imposed conscription within its dominion. Athlone arrived as governor general. South Africa debated a separate peace with Germany amid Smuts-Hertog tensions. Soviet Russia tightened control over Lithuania Latvia and Estonia as Estonia faced a workers' putsch aided by the Red Army. Finland’s fate looms as Americans debate the next question amid M Reynaud’s sorrow.
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England
Germany
Berlin
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Dominion
Queen Mary
Athlone
South Africa
Smuts
Hertzog
Russia
Baltic
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Red Army
Finland
M. Reynaud
Role of Women and Children Behind the Lines of Battle
A wartime feature shows women and boys mobilized to support the Great War effort by manufacturing military uniforms in London. Daughters of Britannia are depicted sewing caps and stif fening wires are added to brims as they prepare new outfits for the army.
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Daughters of Britannia
London
England
Mona Friedlander
Hollywood Actors Reach for Political Nominations
Melvyn Douglas, first Hollywood actor elected as a national convention delegate, plans to attend the Chicago gathering on July 15 while filming He Stayed for Breakfast with Loretta Young and others. The piece also notes shifting casts at Paramount involving Ray Milland and Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Lamour’s hair bob, and quirky studio anecdotes from Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby productions.
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Hollywood
Melvyn Douglas
Douglas
Chicago
Loretta Young
Eugene Pallette
Una O'Connor
Alan Marshall
Alexander Hall
Dorothy Lamour
Wally Westmore
South Seas
Burma
Jon Hall
Samoa
Bing Crosby
Embroidered Picture Of Freedom's Lady tribute shirt
Embroidered image titled Miss Liberty towers over New York harbor holding the torch, a patriotic reminder of American heritage. The transfer 79191, 15 cents, yields a roughly 17 by 21 inch piece and orders are requested.
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New York Harbor
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