Knox and Knox Stimson rulings spark artful political debate
In a column from Benintemale, discussion centers on whether service officers may accept drafts to run for office. The piece notes officers’ eligibility limits, wartime precedents, and raises questions about the chain of command and presidential succession as the New Year shifts power, citing Navy Secretary Knox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Roosevelt
Navy
Washington
New York
War Department
Stimson
Knox
Vandenberg
General MacArthur
Landis in Cairo Faces Quiet Resignation Pressure
Washington reports James M. Landis, Roosevelt’s lend-lease envoy to Cairo, faces blocked authority and opposition from British interests. Conflicts over trucks, negotiations in London, and fear of reversals from Washington threaten his role and provoke speculation of resignation.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Roosevelt
Cairo
James M. Landis
Landis
Mallon
London
Churchill
Harry Hopkins
Wales
Harold Sckately
Petroleum Reserves Corporation
Senate
Truman Committee
Middle East
Hop
Ple
Music in the Silence of Battle at the Italian Front
Ernie Pyle reports from a front line gun pit where faint music from a wireless radio breaks the tension. He profiles Pvt. Francis J. Hoffman once a Washington photographer now a cannoneer, and Pfc. Frank Helms a 28 year old coal miner with a two year old, as well as No. 1 cannoneer Raymond Wilson.
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Italy
Harris & Ewing
Washington
Pvt
Francis J. Hoffman
Tennessee Aveue
Hoffman
Pfc
Frank Helms
Newburg
W. Va
Clover
Frank
Helms
Pfe
Raymond Wilson
General Robinson St
Pittsburgh
Policy Without Entanglements
This excerpt argues for a selective American foreign policy in Europe and the Middle East, urging aloofness from entangling commitments. It endorses Moscow and Tehran accords and cautions against rivalries that could disrupt the United Nations alliance and fuel domestic agitation.
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Baltic Sea
Mediterranean
Russia
Germany
Ex- Lippman
Africa
Middle East
India
Moscow
Teheran
Hull
United States
Iran
Panama Canal
Britain
Stalin
Churchill
Middle Europe
Battle and bayonet odds in El Guettar clash described
Captain Ingersoll recalls lifting enemy mines in a valley near El Guettar. Italian defenders hold strong positions as Rangers and engineers advance with mine detectors and half tracks for anti aircraft protection. The piece contrasts unequal firefights and notes 1400 Italians versus 400 Rangers with Stuka raids shaping the end of the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
D Company
Eo Pate
Saa
Rangers
el Guettar
PT boat action on Bougainville takes two barges
United Press war correspondent James F Lowery recalls a daring PT boat sortie off Bougainville Island. The crew sank two enemy barges, dodged a bomb near Bonis air field, and faced shore batteries as Lt Comdr Leroy Taylor guided the flotilla past Buka Strait.
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United Press
James F. Lowery
South Pacific
Bougainville Island
Lowery
Bonis
Buka Airdrome
Buka Strait
Comdr
Leroy Taylor
Holly Springs
Miss
Pacific
Taylor
Kingdom Come
Buka
Express Augusta Bay
Bonis Strait
Ed Miller
New York City
Robert Page
Fort Kent
Page
Torokina
Puzzler Horizontal and Vertical Clues Solve Mix
A word puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues listing many terms from animals to numbers. Entries include words like Father Anger Unit of light and Sailor among others, with cross references guiding solution of crossword style grid.
Meter Troubles and Wartime Finance Voices
In a mix of street anecdotes and official remarks a frustrated rider reports failing meters and odd behaviors including coins rejected and a penny regurgitated. Separately Treasury and civic voices urge Americans to fund the war with substantial immediate taxation while Camp Fire Girls call for shared responsibility at home and a Japanese broadcast blasts miners over profits.
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Polk
Camp Fire Girl National Council
Quotations on Peace and Morality From Noted Figures
A collage of lines from Longfellow Saurin and Ruskin centers on endurance in pain, divine judgment, and the idea that true joy cannot come from evil. The passages reflect moral reflection and religious sentiment.
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Benintemale
Amarillo
Pomermes Fe Amarillo
Texas
Globe-News Publishing Co
Gene Howf
John McCarty
Wesley Izzard
Frank Knox
D. Hanes
Ernie Pyle
States
By Walter Lippmann
United Nations
Ralph Ingersoll
Amyrom
Prom the
United Press Radio Wire
The
New York Times Magazine
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Betty Smith
Manhattan
Twain
Greater
Queens
Richmond
Bronx
New Yorker
South
Middlewest
America
Finigie
Vessel
Solomon
Child Islands
Los Angeles
Polk Street
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
City of God
Saurin
God
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